Apr 10, 2025 | News Release
Rule would allow dangerous exception for “pilot projects” to discharge 84,000 gallons per day of treated fossil fuel waste to groundwater, risking public health Following a day and a half of deliberations, the Water Quality Control Commission is poised to adopt...
Apr 8, 2025 | News Release
Today, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed SB 21, now a law to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in recent years, up to 95% of New Mexico’s streams and up to 88% of New Mexico’s wetlands have lost...
Apr 3, 2025 | News Release
In response to a challenge brought by Cascadia Wildlands and the Western Environmental Law Center, an Oregon federal district court on Monday held that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the law in authorizing the N126 Late Successional Reserve Landscape...
Mar 19, 2025 | News Release
Today, the House voted 43-25 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to be signed into law. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in recent years, up to 95% of New...
Mar 11, 2025 | News Release
Today, the House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee voted 5-4 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to the full House for a floor vote. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in...
Mar 7, 2025 | News Release
Yesterday, in response to a challenge from community and conservation groups, the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board ordered the Department of Ecology to rewrite pollution discharge permits for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to better...
Mar 4, 2025 | News Release
Today, the House Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee voted 5-2 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to the House for committee hearings and, if passed, a floor vote. Following rollbacks to...
Feb 26, 2025 | News Release
Today, the full New Mexico Senate voted 25-16 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to the House for committee hearings and, if passed, a floor vote. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in...
Feb 21, 2025 | News Release
Today, the Senate Finance Committee voted 6-4 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. Earlier in the legislative session, the bill passed the Senate Conservation and Judiciary committees. It will next go to the full Senate for...
Feb 20, 2025 | News Release
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion today to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing on public lands in Wyoming and Eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin. In a...