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| Las Cruces, NM— Streams and wetlands in New Mexco are at risk of unlimited pollution, according to a report released today by Environment New Mexico, Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court Has Broken the Clean Water Act and Why Congress Must Fix It. One case study highlighted in this report is that Cannon Air Force Base in Curry County discharges 750,000 gallons a day from its wastewater treatment plant. For more then a decade, the facility operated under a Clean Water Act permit to treat its waste, which is used to irrigate a nearby golf course and is discharged into a local playa lake. This is just one example of New Mexico waters at risk. The report also provides 30 additional nationwide case studies demonstrating how the federal Clean Water Act is broken and calling on Representative Teague to fix it. | |
| Industrial facilities dumped 56,700 pounds of toxic chemicals into New Mexico’s waterways, according to a report released today by Environment New Mexico: Wasting Our Waterways: Industrial Toxic Pollution and the Unfulfilled Promise of the Clean Water Act. The report also finds that toxic chemicals were discharged in 1,900 waterways across all 50 states. | |
| Environment New Mexico released an analysis today documenting that Rep. Steve Pearce voted to deny longstanding Clean Water Act protections to many streams and wetlands at a time when 47 percent of New Mexico's assessed rivers and streams and 69 percent of New Mexico's assessed lakes are already too polluted for fishing, swimming or other uses. | |
| New Report Shows How Efficiency Could Save the Southwest 5.7 Million Acre Feet of Water | |
| With threats like climate change, persistent drought, population increase, and oil and gas development continuing to mount, we need to protect our clean waters now more than ever. And YOU can help! | |
| Today’s findings by the Associated Press confirm what Environment America has suspected for some time: that prescription drugs and other medicines are now in the tap water for millions of Americans. Many of the nation’s top health experts have predicted this growing threat for years and have warned about the impending challenge of protecting U.S. drinking water supplies from increased contamination due to pharmaceutical drugs. | |
| More than 51 percent of industrial and municipal facilities across New Mexico discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment New Mexico. | |
| The Senate voted 44 to 43 early this evening to strike down an amendment proposed by Senator John Warner (R-VA) to the energy bill now being debated in the Senate that would have allowed drilling for natural gas as close as 50 miles off the coast of Virginia, off the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay, and off Assateague Island National Seashore and wildlife areas. This would have ended a twenty-six year old bipartisan moratorium on new areas of offshore drilling. | |
| During the “Year of Water†2007 legislative session, advocates won passage of an important Environment New Mexico-backed memorial (HJM42), and came just short of passage on an identical joint memorial, both sponsored by Rep. Mimi Stewart (Albuquerque). | |
| Rep. Peter Wirth and Sen. Carlos Cisneros, working with Environment New Mexico and Conservation Voters New Mexico, introduced legislation Wednesday that would require that the water development plans submitted by municipalities, counties and other local planning entities include specific criteria that address alternatives for balancing water demand and supply. | |
| In a new report, Our Water, Our Future: Policy Options to Safeguard Water Resources in New Mexico, Environment New Mexico looks at the current state of New Mexico’s water supply—its sources, its uses and the demands placed on it—and presents an array of short- and long-term policy solutions to New Mexico’s water scarcity problems. | |
| A new analysis of government data released today by the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group (NMPIRG) and the National Environmental Trust (NET) found for the first time that the West’s major river basins are getting warmer, at exactly the time of year water needs to be stored as snow to meet the region’s water needs. | |
| "Congressman Tom Udall's 'Middle Rio Grande Emergency Water Supply Stabilization Act of 2003' has drawn significant bipartisan support from the Albuquerque City Council," stated Albuquerque City Councilor Eric Griego, who is sponsoring a memorial supporting the bill in the city council. The memorial urges the U.S. Congress to pass Udall's bill and President Bush to sign the legislation into law. | |