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 Environmental Protection Agency proposed two possible approaches to regulating coal ash yesterday, with one being much more restrictive than the other. Only under one of the options would coal ash be treated as hazardous waste. The issue of coal ash disposal…
“We aren’t aware of any efforts by the state or the San Juan Coal Company to address any of the pollution caused by the dumping of 40 million tons of coal ash at the mine,” David Graham-Caso of the Sierra Club told The Independent yesterday, “so it looks like we will be filing a lawsuit.”
The Sierra Club alleges that the San Juan Coal Company has improperly dumped more than 40 million tons of coal ash waste and sludge into unlined pits, resulting in the contamination of waterways and wells near the mine.
