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.
A proposed coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico is still a good project despite setbacks like having its air permit pulled by the Environmental Protection Agency, says a representative of a Navajo Nation agency charged with developing energy projects.…
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 developers of the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant in northwest New Mexico have switched tracks on another coal-fired plant they planned for southeastern Nevada, announcing this week they instead plan to build a natural gas plant at the Toquop site that includes a 50 to 100 megawatt photovoltaic solar plant.
No new coal plants broke ground in 2009, the Sierra Club said in a statement last week. The group refers to “the coal rush” that it says began in 2001 when 150 proposed coal-fired plants were announced. Since then, 111…
The biological assessment has been withdrawn for a proposed coal-fired power plant in the Four Corners region by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, according to the Associated Press. The federal agency has “significant concerns” about how the amount of…
The government has denied Desert Rock Energy Company’s bid for a federal stimulus grant, the Farmington Daily Times reported today. The company had hoped to use the money to include carbon capture sequestration technology into the project design of a coal-fired…
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department study, due next month, will show there are already significant threats posed to endangered species in the region by industrial and agricultural pollutants in the four corners region.
The Las Cruces Connection is blogging the “airport of the future,” better known as Spaceport America. This blog has it all on what to expect for the breaking-ground events planned for today for the spaceport located in Doña Ana County. Also, you…
In a dramatic move yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency withdrew the air quality permit it issued last summer for the Desert Rock coal-fired power plant, which is slated to be built in the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region just southwest of Farmington. The action drew praise from critics of the plant and blistering commentary from its proponents.
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…
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a finding today that six greenhouse gases cause air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare. The finding also found that emissions from motor vehicles contribute to the concentration of three of…
The proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant may be envisioned as a state-of-the-art facility that reduces pollution a great deal compared to conventional power plants, but the Natural Resources Defense Council still ranks it quite high for the amount…
One of New Mexico’s constitutional amendments on the November ballot that everyone thought had passed was actually defeated. Amendment 4 would have allowed school board elections to be held on the same day as other nonpartisan races, such as…
National Public Radio aired a story from NPR member station KNAU on the controversial Desert Rock power plant that may be going up on the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners area.
The piece, aired on the station’s mid-day…
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…
The expansion of a coal-fired power plant in Utah has been blocked because the Environmental Protection Agency’s permit did not adequately take into account carbon dioxide emissions.
The Deseret News, one of Salt Lake City’s major dailies, reports…
