Nuclear Watch to sue over LANL cleanup problems

The notice mailed Wednesday notes the lab missed a December final deadline for completion of Los Alamos clean-up work and hasn’t asked for an extension of the now-expired schedule that was set a decade ago. That makes DOE and Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS), the lab’s private manager, liable for civil penalties and subject […]

Earth Matters / Doug Meiklejohn

Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project Executive Director Allyson Siwik talks about critical New Mexico water resource issues with Doug Meiklejohn, attorney, Executive Director and founder of the NM Environmental Law Center, a non-profit, public interest law firm that provides free and low-cost legal services on environmental matters throughout New Mexico. GMCR.orgGot to […]

Copper Rule leaves a bad taste in NM’s mouth

Printed in the Albuquerque Journal on March 27, 2014 By Douglas Meiklejohn / Executive Director, New Mexico Environmental Law Center Groundwater provides the drinking water for 90 percent of the people in New Mexico. For that reason, whether the recently adopted...