2025
March 19, 2025
Bill to restore clean water protections passes House, heads to governor for signature
March 11, 2025
Bill to restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water passes final House committee, heads to House floor
March 4, 2025
Bill to restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water passes first House committee
February 26, 2025
Bill to restore clean water protections passes Senate
February 12, 2025
Bill to protect and restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water passes second committee
January 30, 2025
Two bills to restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water pass first committee
January 27, 2025
Protecting New Mexico’s Waters: New legislation will restore clean water protections and safeguard drinking water for New Mexicans
2024
December 10, 2024
Diverse Local Coalition Celebrates Commission Ruling to Protect New Mexico’s Outstanding Rivers
December 9, 2024
EPA finalizes determination of water quality violations in Los Alamos County; PCBs in some areas more than 10,000 times safety limits
2023
November 9, 2023
Statement on EPA’s Preliminary Determination of Water Quality Violations in Los Alamos County
May 25, 2023
US Supreme Court Sides with Polluters in Sackett vs. EPA Ruling
March 29, 2023
Senate Votes to Weaken Clean Water Protections
House Votes to Weaken Clean Water Protections
2022
June 21, 2022
Local Leaders Urge Protections for Northern New Mexico Streams
2021
January 14, 2021
BLM to Withdraw Approval of Florida Mountains Mine in Response to Citizens’ Lawsuit
2020
June 23, 2020
New Mexico Groups Appeal EPA’s Dirty Water Rule
August 26,2020
Conservation Groups Challenge Trump Administration’s Attack on the Power of States and Local Residents to Protect Clean Water
September 11,2020
Conservation Groups Sue to Block BLM Decision on Proposed Dolomite Mine in Luna County
October 14, 2020
Five new watershed restoration projects approved
2019
June 26, 2019
Groups Sue EPA Over Los Alamos Pollution
September 16, 2019
Groups Sue EPA Over Los Alamos Pollution
December 18, 2019
Legal action spurs EPA to require new water pollution controls in Los Alamos
2018
March 27, 2018
City of Santa Fe Fights for Clean Water
May 16, 2018
Lawsuit Targets Pruitt for Refusing to Hold Mining Industry Accountable for Toxic Waste Cleanups
2017
June 27, 2017
Dirty-Water Move by Trump Administration Threatens New Mexico Waters
2016
January 29, 2016
Court Orders Environmental Protection Agency to Finalize Rules so Polluters Pay for Their Own Toxic Messes
April 20, 2016
As Coal Collapses, Groups Launch Lawsuit Challenging 25-year Extension of
Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo Mine
May 4, 2016
Citizen Groups Challenge Fracking in Santa Fe National Forest
May 26, 2016
Funding Approved to Address E.coli Contamination in Rio
Fernando de Taos
September 28, 2016
New Mexico High Court to consider water sacrifice zones
2015
December 21, 2015
Lawsuit to Challenge Feds’ Approval of Decades More Coal Pollution at Four
Corners
