New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Since 1987, the NMELC has worked every day to protect
New Mexico's water, land and air from toxic pollution; and to assist its many and diverse communities protect their environment.

We are a nonprofit law firm. http://www.nmelc.org/
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Santa Fe, NM, 87505
Phone:
505-989-9022

New Mexico Environmental Law Center

 
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center keeps working to protect New Mexico's groundwater!

Source: nmenvirolaw.org
The Law Center filed a Motion for Stay for our clients the Oil and Gas Accountability Project (OGAP). Our clients are requesting the Motion in order to keep the higher chloride standard from being implemented by the Oil Conservation Commission until a decision on the appeal is determined.
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center 's docket of cases grew 61% this year! There is so much work to get done.

Find out more about our cases here:

Source: nmenvirolaw.org
Cases are arranged alphabetically. To find a particular case, location or topic, use our search feature. You can use any search term, or multiple search terms to narrow the focus of the search.
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center Great article on the 7th annual Indigenous Uranium Forum. An incredibly sobering event. Did you go? What did you think?

Source: www.washingtonpost.com
ACOMA, N.M.-- Uranium from the Grants Mineral Belt running under rugged peaks and Indian pueblos of New Mexico was a source of electric power and military might in decades past, providing fuel for reactors and atomic bombs.
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center "Kempter says his discussion will focus on the geologic forces
that formed the scenery around the Abiquiu area, which captivated
O'Keefe. But in past eons, he explains, New Mexico was very different
-- andactually at sea level."

Read the full article here:

Source: www.publicnewsservice.org
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Patricia Antelles
Patricia Antelles
Or contact us & we will videotape one of his lectures. abiquiu@gmail.com
October 21 at 4:13pm
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Hey Patricia! Southwest Seminars http://www.southwestseminars.org/SouthwestSeminars.org/Welcome.html actually video tapes every lecture, so I think it is possible to get the recording from them! Thanks!
October 23 at 11:30am
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center and Southwest Seminar's benefit lecture series schedule change: Kirt will be kicking off our series on
Wednesday, October 21 at 6 pm at the Hotel Santa Fe.

Come on out! For more info on the series:

Source: nmenvirolaw.org
Oct. 21** Dr. Kirt Kempter**Changed to Wednesday, October 21Georgia’s Geology: Shaping the Abiquiu Landscape Through Time
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center Seventh annual Indigenous Uranium Forum to take place at Acoma Oct. 22-24.

Source: www.abqjournal.com
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New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center Santa Fean Magazine talks to the Law Center’s Communications and Public Ed. Associate, Juana Colón about the Justice Bar (http://nmenvirolaw.org/index.php/justicebar)!

See the article in the “City Different” section of the October/November issue. Thanks Santa Fean!

Source: santafean.com
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Source: www.publicbroadcasting.net
- -- On Wednesday's At Noon midday report:Listen to the program above or by segment below: The words oil and gas drilling are back in the news. This time in connection with a change of rules made by state regulators, a change that seems to favor industry. ...
Jennifer Marshall
Jennifer Marshall
Way tp go, Juana!
October 9 at 2:13pm
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
October 9 at 2:15pm
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Source: www.santafenewmexican.com
Group claims weak standard in waste pit rule appeal
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center
files Statement of Appellate Issues in the case against OCC's roll back of pit rule to save industry money.

Our client, OGAP, has appealed the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission’s (OCC) decision to weaken an important environmental standard that protects New Mexico’s ground water from pollution by oil and gas operat...ions. Get Press Release: http://nmenvirolaw.org/images/pdf/PR_PitRule_Rollback_Appeal_102009.pdf

Learn more about the case:
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Source: nmenvirolaw.org
In June 2008, the Law Center successfully advocated for New Mexico to adopt the most stringent Oil Pit Rule in the U.S. (the Rule governs the storage and disposal of toxic oil and gas drilling by-products. ...
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center Join the gathering! The 7th Indigenous Uranium Forum proposes to focus much-needed public attention on the attack of Mount Taylor by uranium mining.

October 22, 23, 24 2009 at the Sky City Hotel & Casino, Acoma Pueblo, NM.

Visit the Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum website for more info:

Source: www.siuf.net
7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
Sorry for the multiple posts! FB is NOT cooperating! :)
October 2 at 2:23pm
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center Please vote for “Environmental Protection” as a beneficiary of the BONTAJ ROULET tour’s grants. The NMELC is one of the grantees!

Thanks!

Source: www.bontaj.com
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New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center ’s
Justice Bars are spotlighted in the October 2009 issue of New Mexico
Magazine! You will find Justice Bars in their Unique Boutique Section.
Thanks New Mexico Magazine!

To learn more about our yummy chocolate bars and to order your own, check out our Justice Bar page:

Source: nmenvirolaw.org
Justice Bars® reflect our commitment to communities, locally and globally. Our luscious organic Fair Trade Certified™ chocolate is produced without pesticides using sustainable practices by farmers who are paid equitably for their cacao. ...
New Mexico Environmental Law Center

New Mexico Environmental Law Center As nuclear power continues to be falsely touted as the answer to our energy needs and our carbon emission problem, we will continue to see the nuclear industry fan the fires of speculation under the guise of "green technology."

It's important that we take into account the complete life cycle of nuclear power, and remember the devastating effect uranium mining has had on many New Mexican communities.

Source: www.world-nuclear-news.org
Nuclear energy's fuel supply infrastructure should be able to meet world demand in the short term, but expansion will be needed across the entire fuel cycle beyond 2020, warns the latest WNA market report.The ...
Michelle Mosser

Michelle Mosser since I'm already a fan! sign me up!