by NMELC | Feb 12, 2016 | News, NMELC in the News
“Right now I don’t think it’s hyperbole to say that the oil and gas industry in New Mexico is essentially self-regulating,” said Eric Jantz, an attorney with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center… “Oil and gas brings out its lobbyists and gets people from the oil patch to come and testify and spreads money around.” […]
by NMELC | Jan 21, 2016 | News, NMELC in the News
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 […]
by NMELC | Dec 7, 2015 | News, NMELC in the News
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 […]
by NMELC | Sep 15, 2014 | News, Press Releases
Albuquerque, NM – Yesterday, the SouthWest Organizing Project (SWOP) filed a complaint with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) against the City of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County under Title VI of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. The complaint, submitted by the non-profit New Mexico Environmental Law Center, asserts that local decision-makers “have demonstrated […]
by NMELC | Mar 27, 2014 | News, NMELC in the News
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...
by NMELC | Sep 10, 2013 | News, Press Releases
Community and environmental groups to appeal SANTA FE, N.M. — The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) voted today to adopt copper mining groundwater regulations that expressly allow water pollution rather than prevent it. The rules, proposed by the New...