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 developers of the Desert Rock power plant don’t have any plans at the moment to resubmit an application for an air quality permit from the EPA, says freelance reporter Laura Paskus in a piece for the High Country…
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.
Corn-based ethanol made in coal-fired plants is becoming more popular, and more criticized. New Mexico’s alternative-energy researchers stand to learn a lesson the fast-deflating ethanol bubble.
New Mexico Assistant Attorney General Seth Cohen says last week’s ruling that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has to reconsider an air quality permit issued for an expansion of the Bonanza coal-fired power plant in Utah will have a…
