Today, the Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) unanimously approved both Outstanding National Resource Water (ONRW) petitions presented to it. These petitions called for the protection of the Upper Pecos Watershed, and portions of the Jemez, Hondo and Upper Rio Grande. ONRW is the most protective water quality designation under the federal Clean Water Act.
The combined projects would invest over $1 billion in the Central Consolidated School District and McKinley and Rio Arriba counties and create 1,200 multi-year construction jobs in the three counties.
Senator Brenda McKenna co-sponsored SB 32, known as Roxy’s Law or the Wildlife Conservation and Public Safety Act, culminating a decades-long effort to ban traps, snares, and poisons on public lands except under certain limited circumstances (passed and signed).
Senator Carrie Hamblen sponsored several pieces of legislation to expand rural broadband access, two of which – SB 93 and SB 204 – passed and…
New Mexico Environment Department’s proposed methane air pollution rules much improved May 6, 2021 | News Release Today, the New Mexico Environment Department proposed new rules…
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed the Energy Transition Act (ETA) into law. This win was hard fought, and we want to extend our thanks…
