I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King just released a statement saying the Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn the “power plant permit” for the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant that would be located on the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region of New Mexico.
The press release said the EPA has “effectively” withdrawn the permit by filing a motion for voluntary remand, and that more details will be forthcoming.
The state of New Mexico appealed the air quality permit as soon as it was issued last year, and its been tied up in that legal process since. The appeal was based on a wide variety of issues, ranging from the high amount of localized air pollution in the four corners region, which the plant would exacerbate, to the carbon dioxide the plant would release into the atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is the biggest culprit in the climate change causing global warming.
