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2019 LEGISLATIVE SESSION
The 2019 Legislative session is underway! After eight years of the Martinez administration, there are high hopes that the new Governor and a stronger progressive majority in the Legislature will help restore environmental and public health protections that were...
read moreNavajo Community Files Report with UN Human Rights Committee
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...
read moreUranium: A Toxic Legacy at Red Water Pond Road
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 affects of uranium mining and milling on the Red Water Pond Road...
read moreEnvironment Suffered Under Ex-Governor
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...
read moreNo More Fox Guarding the Henhouse
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...
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