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 Sierra Club and the Natural Resource Defense Council are suing the state for issuing an air permit for a coal-burning power generation facility planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City.
The midterm elections brought an unprecedented number of climate skeptics into Congress, with no incoming Republicans acknowledging the existence of man-made climate change. Environmentalists have all but given up on passing significant climate legislation in the near future, but in the long term, it may be difficult for climate skeptics to hold their ranks: Young Americans are significantly more concerned about global warming than older generations, and there are no major organizations of young climate skeptics.
New Mexico dairy owners say new water quality regulations could crush their industry. But the state’s dairy herds are the largest in the nation and the Environment Department says that dense concentration of animals is one of the reasons why 57 percent of New Mexico’s dairies have polluted the groundwater.
As it promised months ago, The Sierra Club on Thursday filed suit against the San Juan Coal Company and PNM, which operates the San Juan Power Generating Station, alleging that the dumping of ash and sludge from the power generating station…
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.
“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.”
Reforming a state law that allows landowners to kill wild game that cause property damage will be a priority issue for environmental groups at the state Legislature this year.
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 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.
In a close vote, the U.S. House passed a climate bill 219-212 on Friday. More than forty Democrats voted against the bill, a handful of which voted against it saying the bill was not strong enough. Eight Republicans voted…
The League of Women Voters released a statement chastising U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat, for the energy bill passed today out of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Bingaman chairs the committee.
ALBUQUERQUE — Environmental groups say that under President Bush, federal agencies have caved to ranchers’ demands and failed to adequately protect endangered species—such as the Mexican gray wolf—as required by the Endangered Species Act.
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