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A New Mexico district judge heard arguments to dismiss a civil lawsuit alleging that the state has failed to regulate oil and gas pollution.

Center for Biological Diversity: SANTA FE, N.M.— A New Mexico district court ruled today that oil and business interests can intervene in a landmark lawsuit against the state for failing to uphold its constitutional duty to control rising oil and gas pollution.

Center for Biological Diversity: SANTA FE, N.M .— New Mexico lawmakers concluded the 2024 legislative session today without passing any legislation to address the climate emergency or mitigate the public health and environmental harms of pollution from the state’s booming oil and gas industry.

Center for Biological Diversity: SANTA FE, N.M.— Youth, frontline community members and Indigenous peoples who sued the state of New Mexico this year for failing to control oil and gas pollution will present key elements of their case Monday before the Water and Natural Resources Committee. The plaintiffs will describe how oil and gas pollution violates their constitutional rights and identify steps the Legislature can take in the 2024 session to protect public health and the environment.

Center for Biological Diversity: SANTA FE, N.M.— Environmental, public health and social justice groups today urged New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to establish statewide health buffer zones to prohibit oil and gas wells within one mile of schools and other educational facilities.

Missed cues grow Native distrust around a New Mexico research project on oil well wastewater.

Tribal leaders from Arizona and across the country will have direct access to advising the U.S. Department of the Interior for the first time in history with the creation of a tribal advisory panel.

Tribal leaders from Arizona and across the country will have direct access to advising the U.S. Department of the Interior for the first time in history with the creation of a tribal advisory panel.

Secretary Deb Haaland announced the launch of the first-ever Secretary’s Tribal Advisory Committee (STAC).

Film festivals now are deciding whether to continue in-person or to continue virtually, the strategy for reaching audiences for the past two years. In this