Nine out of ten New Mexicans get their drinking water from groundwater —

yet oil and gas drilling, mining, nuclear weapons production, ill-considered development and lax industry practices threaten our state’s scarce resources.

Santolina Proposed Development

Case: Ongoing We represent community groups in their effort to prevent approval for a 90,000+ person planned development proposed for the west side of Albuquerque – despite the fact that developers have failed to show where they will get their water and how they will construct this massive undertaking without cost to Bernalillo taxpayers.

Surface and Groundwater Quality Protection Regulation Amendments

Case: Closed The Martinez Administration’s NM Environment Department proposed numerous changes to the state’s surface water and groundwater quality regulations. Many of them would reduce public notice and hinder public participation.