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Last Meeting’s Presentation, Written Comment Guidelines, and more

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If you missed Thursday’s Community Meeting you can read here Mark Severance’s Presentation about preparing for the NMED Hearing. Two key points: 1. The hearing is remote and there will be two local venues for folks to gather in addition to watching via Webex on your own computer. The Traylor Gym at Capitan Public Schools…

Feb 9 Public Hearing Transcript is Published

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The transcript of the Public Hearing has been released and a link to a complete copy (PDF) is permanently available on the NMED Hearings Info page along with email addresses for NMED Secretary Kenney, Gov. Grisham, and the County Commissioners. Speaking of which, the next LCCC meeting is Tuesday, March 15, and the revised proposed…

Judge Sugg’s Order: Reflections, Part 2

ByMark Severance

By the Alto CEP Now that it has been established that the immediate and expanded areas surrounding the proposed Alto concrete batch plant (cbp) are primarily residential as unraveled in part one, Judge Sugg suggests a historical complicity favoring the placement of such plants in Lincoln County with misleading and antiquated information. The lead sentence…

Community, “Smart Growth”, An EPA Administrator and Judge Sugg

ByMark Severance

By the Alto CEP It has now been three years since a local contractor purchased the commercial property on State Highway 220 to the east of the State Highway 48 intersection.  At that time  an area resident inquired as to the use of the property and the response was “for storage,” a response similar to…

Sacrifice Zone — What is it?

ByMark Severance

November 3, 2023 By: Galen Farrington What is a Sacrifice Zone? When I taught freshman English at Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso, I taught the two-part selection, “Cancer Alley, The Poisoning of the American South” and the class was introduced to the concept of Environmental Justice and specifically the term “environmental racism.”  Today, ten years later,…