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.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on pollution from cement manufacturing plants, announcing new rules this week intended to curb mercury and particulate pollution nationwide. Cement kilns are a leading source of mercury emissions in the U.S., according…
Helena Chemical Company won a defamation lawsuit against Arturo Uribe, a 40-year old social worker who lives near a warehouse owned by the Tennessee-based Helena Chemical Company, and had spoken out repeatedly about the company. Two months prior to Helena’s suit against him, Uribe and 22 community members sued the company–which had been repeatedly cited for air quality violations–saying its emissions were making local children sick.
After two public hearings, each lasting more than three hours, the City of Albuquerque’s Air Quality Division seems likely to approve a permit application that would allow a cement transfer station to operate 24 hours a day in the middle of a residential neighborhood.
An air quality permit hearing held Wednesday night was well-attended by local politicians, interested in being responsive to their constituents, and maybe picking up a few votes along the way.
Wednesday night the City of Albuquerque’s Air Quality Division is hosting the second part of a hearing on the subject of a North Valley cement plant’s request for a permit that will allow it to operate 24 hours a day.…
A public hearing ran so late Tuesday night that another hearing will be scheduled to hear testimony from residents about a request from a cement plant located in Albuquerque’s North Valley to extend its hours of operation.
