by Janiece Jonsin | Jun 24, 2020 | News, Press Releases
On Tuesday June 23, 2020 Today three New Mexico based organizations – Amigos Bravos, the New Mexico Acequia Association, and Gila Resources Information Project – joined together to appeal the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of...
by Janiece Jonsin | May 16, 2020 | Letter to the Editor, NMELC in the News
By Charles de Saillan in the Santa Fe New Mexican “A ball of confusion,” the Temptations sang in 1970, “that’s what the world is today, hey, hey.” Fifty years later, amid COVID-19, those lyrics ring eerily true. On March 26, the Environmental Protection Agency added...
by Janiece Jonsin | Apr 29, 2020 | NMELC in the News
As the country reels from the spread of the novel coronavirus, federal regulators say they can’t keep up with the enforcement of environmental laws. They’re also mounting a push-back campaign against press reports and lawmakers who questioned the new policy. Last...
by Janiece Jonsin | Apr 28, 2020 | News, Press Releases
On March 31, 2020, the Mining and Minerals Division (MMD) of the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, rescinded its prior determination that the permit application for the Copper Flat Mine is technically complete. According to the MMD’s order, the mining...
by Janiece Jonsin | Mar 27, 2020 | News
On March 26, the EPA’s Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance issued a memo – effective retroactively to March 13 – outlining the steps industries could take to gain exemption from compliance with their environmental and public health...
