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The New Mexico Environmental Law Center has been defending environmental justice since 1987. It is our mission to work with New Mexico’s communities to protect their air, land and water in the fight for environmental justice.
At the Law Center, we are working hard with under-resourced communities in New Mexico to ensure that they have the same clean air, land and water that every New Mexican is entitled to. We are on the legal front line fighting to not only keep environmental regulations, but to make them even stronger. Support our work to protect New Mexico.
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center is committed to dismantling the racist structures that are at the heart of environmental injustice and all disparate treatment of communities of color. If we do not respect the water we drink, the air we breathe, the land we sow, and the community in which we live, we cannot realize the fundamental human rights to which we are all entitled. We stand with those seeking justice and will continue to utilize our platform to support our state and its people.
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Request for Hearing on Roca Honda MORP
Re: Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment and New Mexico Mining Watch
request for hearing on Roca Honda Resources, LCC’s Mining Operations and
Reclamation Plan, Permit No. MK025RN, Roca Honda Mine
Initial Letter re YGI Microgrid
Re: Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC Notice of Air Quality Permit Application – YGI
Microgrid
NMELC & NM WILD Motion to File and Amicus Curiae Brief Supporting Sandia Pueblo
NMELC & NM WILD Motion to File and Amicus Curiae Brief Supporting Sandia Pueblo filed on April 27, 2026


