Please join us at 9:00 am on Halloween, Saturday, October 31, at the entrance to Legacy Estates for the Fall Edition of Alto CEP’s Bi-Annual Adopt-A-Highway Litter Control Clean up, between Mile Markers 0 and 1 on the Billy the Kid Scenic Byway (NM 220). Safety vests, and trash collection tools and bags will be provided. Costumes not required but encouraged! For more information click here!
Our May 13, Boot Bash Fundraising Event has just become a FUNdraising Celebration! Our attorney, Tom Hnasko, has just received a copy of the conclusions and Recommended Final Order from Hearing Officer Gregory Chakalian which is to be submitted on Tuesday, May 9. The previously scheduled Boot Bash Fundraising event has just become a celebration….
On July 20, 2023 the Attorney for the Alto CEP Tom Hnasko filed an “Appellant’s Docketing Statement” with the New Mexico Court of Appeals, regarding the deliberation and vote of the Environment Improvement Board (EIB) to overturn the Final Order of the Deputy Secretary of the Environment to deny the air quality permit for the…
Roper’s motion to disallow discussion of water issues has been denied by the Hearing Officer. In Limine (in limb-in-ay) from Latin for “at the threshold,” referring to a motion before a trial begins. STATE OF NEW MEXICOBEFORE THE SECRETARY OF THE ENVIRONMENTIN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATIONOF ROPER CONTRUCTION INC. AQB 21-57(P)FOR AN AIR QUALITY…
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,…
January 31, 2022 To Whom It May Concern: Fort Stanton Cave and the Snowy River Passage is a Lincoln County Jewel that was formed by the pure waters from the great Sierra Blanca Mountain in our back yard, and must be protected. In 2005 the cave was designated a National Conservation Area by Congress,…
By: Galen Farrington What is a Sacrifice Zone? When I taught freshman English at Eastern New Mexico University-Ruidoso, I taughtthe two-part selection, “Cancer Alley, The Poisoning of the American South” andthe class was introduced to the concept of Environmental Justice andspecifically the term “environmental racism.” Today, ten years later,those living along the 85-mile stretch along…
