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| "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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
