The New Mexico Environmental Law Center holds and sponsors events throughout the year.
Join us for the public screening of a short original film created for us by Emmy-award winning filmmaker Debra Anderson (Split Estate) at Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe. Debra has done an extraordinary job of capturing a few of the compelling stories from the communities where we work.
We’ll also be showing Robert Redford’s adaptation of The Milagro Beanfield War and presenting the Karl Souder Water Protection Award.
WHEN: December 11, 2012 at 6 PM
WHERE: Center for Contemporary Arts
$10 suggested donation
Purchase tickets by phone at 505.982.1338 or at the box office
Come early, as seats are limited!!
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Sponsored by:
Please join His Excellency Wegger Chr. Strommen
Ambassador of Norway to the United States
for a Luncheon Discussion
February 9, 2011
Noon – 2:00 p.m
Santa Fe Convention Center
201 West Marcy Street
The Earth is undergoing unprecedented and rapid ecological change brought on by a powerful regional warming trend associated with global climate change. These experts will explain events in the Arctic region, how they foretell potentially catastrophic changes in the Earth’s climate systems, and what these changes may mean for the environment and economy of the Southwest region.
Introductory Remarks: Mayor David Coss
Featuring:
Ambassador Strommen, Norway – a fossil fuel economy targeting climate neutrality
Dr. Kim Holmen, Research Director, Norwegian Polar Institute - Rapid Arctic climate change and its feedback to global climate
Dr. Gregg Garfin, Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona - Impacts of climate change to the Southwestern US
Rafe Pomerance, Founder of the Climate Policy Center and President of Clean Air-Cool Planet
Please RSVP to Lilia Diaz
or 505-989-7262
Luncheon Sponsored by:
Santa Fe Convention and Visitors Bureau
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The Forest Service could issue its approval this year, the newspaper reports… And once that happens, hoo-boy, is New Mexico in for an economic bonanza — the likes of which DeJoia can’t even describe to a reporter:
“I won’t run you through all the economics on that, but you can rest assured there is an awful lot of income tax paid on that,” he said. “There are a lot of New Mexico taxes in there.”
Thanks for sparing us the numbers. Nobody wants to be thinking hard when we could just be mindlessly digging for short-term profits. Grist.org
Go to Grist.org for full story.
But a coalition of organizations, including several Native American groups and an organization of former uranium miners, contends that a mining operation would imperil the area’s water supply and its quality. The group also believes it would severely impact an area designated by the Forest Service as a traditional cultural property that has great spiritual significance for indigenous people across the Southwest…
[Staff Attorney] Jantz said water pumped from the mine could result in significant drawdowns of surface water and springs. There is also concern that waste piles and toxic heavy-metal materials could make their way into ground and surface water, he said. Alamogordo Daily News
Go to Alamogordo Daily News for full story.
SANTA FE, N.M. - Today, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) filed a request for a public hearing regarding a proposed permit revision to put the Mt. Taylor uranium mine on active status. The mine, near Grants, NM, has been inactive (on “standby” status) without cleanup for 23 years. The mine’s owner, Rio Grande Resources, received a fourth renewal for the standby permit in January 2012, but on April 12, 2013 it notified the public it was seeking a revision to change the mine’s status to “active”. The NMELC filed the hearing request on behalf of its clients, Amigos Bravos and the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment (MASE).
Go to case page.
SANTA FE, N.M. - The New Mexico Court of Appeals struck down an effort by the Martinez Administration to repeal regulations favorable to the environment and reinstated the state’s energy efficiency building codes.
The energy codes, adopted before Governor Martinez came into office, were repealed by the State Construction Industries Commission in the summer of 2011. The New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) appealed the Commission’s move on seven grounds, including that the Commission failed to state the reasons for its decision as is required of all administrative agencies. The Court of Appeals agreed, and reversed the Commission’s decision. (Get PDF of Court of Appeals ruling)
Visit Repeal of Energy Efficient Building Codes case page
