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 Albuquerquer-Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority will add more sensitive lab tests for toxic fuel additive to its suite of water quailty tests for southeast city wells near Kirtland Air Force Base, authority and U.S. Air Force official have announced.…
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…
New Mexico has become the 13th state to side with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s new rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries, cement facilities and coal power plants, Attorney General Gary King announced Thursday.…
A nuclear waste watchdog group says the state hasn’t done enough to make sure radioactive and toxic waste isn’t leaking from Sandia National Labs’ mixed waste landfill. Rebuffed by regional EPA officials, Citizen Action New Mexico now wants agency brass in Washington, D.C. and New Mexico Attorney General Gary King’s office to review the state Environment Department’s regulation of the site.
A proposed federal tax on the oil and chemical industries would help New Mexico kick-start languishing clean-ups at some of its most dangerous toxic waste sites, according to the state Superfund Oversight Bureau’s program manager.
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…
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) were widely used as flame retardants in furniture, carpets, and plastics until 2004.
Now, two new studies published in the public health journal Environmental Health Perspectives suggest PBDEs may impair women’s fertility and…
The Environmental Protection Agency will impose some stricter water standards, including some that will effect New Mexico. The Associated Press is reporting that one of the compounds that the EPA will be regulating is trichloroethylene, or TCE , which was used…
Hydro Resources, Inc. can’t yet start mining for uranium in Church Rock until an appeals court decides whether or not 160 acres owned by HRI are subject to regulation by the EPA or the New Mexico Environment Department.
While there’s talk here in New Mexico about the early release from prison of non-violent offenders, North Carolina is struggling with the potential release of two dozen prisoners, some of whom were convicted of murder, reports WRAL.com. The…
The New York Times on Sunday published a jaw-dropping story on the lax enforcement of water laws by municipalities, states and the federal government. In “Toxic Waters,” The Times reported that “…Last year, 40 percent of the nation’s community…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted a waiver on Tuesday that allows California and 13 other states, including New Mexico, to create regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in new automobiles, according the governor’s office late Tuesday afternoon.
Gov.…
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…
