by Michael Jensen | Jan 18, 2019 | Press Releases
The Law Center issued a press release announcing a report filed with the United Nations Human Rights Committee charging the United States with violating the human rights of minority and indigenous communities affected by decades of uranium mining and milling. The...
by Michael Jensen | Jan 8, 2019 | NMELC in the News
Ellen Berkovitch, independent journalist and documentary and podcast producer, has produced a documentary podcast for Northern California Public Media/NPR One on the long-term health and cultural effects of uranium mining and milling on the Red Water Pond Road...
by Michael Jensen | Jan 8, 2019 | NMELC in the News
On January 8, 2019, the Albuquerque Journal published a Letter-to-the-Editor submitted by Doug Meiklejohn, Executive Director of the NM Environmental law Center. The Letter discussed some of the ways in which the administration of former-Governor Susana Martinez...
by Michael Jensen | Jan 2, 2019 | NMELC in the News
On December 30, 2018, the Santa Fe New Mexican published an opinion piece written by Mike Neas, a retired homebuilder living in Placitas. The letter appeared first in the Rio Rancho Observer on December 21st. Mr Neas commented on the appointment of Sarah Cottrell...
by Michael Jensen | Dec 12, 2018 | Press Releases
At the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority (ABCWUA) Board Meeting on December 4th, both County Commissioner Steven Michael Quezada and City Councilor Klarissa Peña spoke out about preserving South Valley agriculture. Councilor Peña said she “fears”...
by Michael Jensen | Dec 5, 2018 | News, NMELC in the News
Eric Jantz, staff attorney at the Law Center, has an article in the Summer 2018 edition of the Natural Resources Journal, published by the University of New Mexico Law School. Coincidentally, the co-Editor in Chief of that issue is Nadine Padilla, the Law...
