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Wage Theft in the Chile Fields

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 17, 2013

Green chile. The greatest gift New Mexico has given to the world, when you visit the Land of Enchantment, that chile is found everywhere from the most humble breakfast burrito (breakfast taco is second rate Texans) to the high end overpriced Santa Fe restaurants where...

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Copper Mines Seeking to Pollute New Mexico Groundwater

By Erik Loomis

On August 27, 2013

The mining industry, conducting its usual anti-social, anti-environmental, and exploitative behavior, is pushing for new rules in New Mexico to escape having to go through a variance process to pollute.

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State Change

By Erik Loomis

On August 13, 2013

The Chihuahuan Desert in New Mexico (and presumably Chihuahua as well, but the Mexican side of the drought is completely ignored by most environmental journalists) is undergoing what ecologists call.

Fracking Disclosure

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 1, 2013

Marjorie Childress reports on a New Mexico lawmaker opposing right-to-know legislation on fracking: “It’s gonna fuel litigation, radical fringe groups, who don’t understand the process of what we do and how we do it,” Rep. Don Bratton, R-Lea County, said about HB 136, a bill...

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NM-01

By Erik Loomis

On June 5, 2012

I know everyone is focused on Wisconsin today, and rightfully so. But there's a race I care deeply about in New Mexico. Martin Heinrich, who currently represents the 1st Congressional.

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The Georgia O’Keefe/D.H. Lawrence/Mabel Dodge Luhan Disease

By Erik Loomis

On April 10, 2012

Dear Brown People of Northern New Mexico, Please let me move into your communities so I can find meaning in my spiritually dead consumerist life. I will still consume your.

Enforcing Environmental Regulations

By Erik Loomis

In General

On November 15, 2011

While the nation plunges ahead with fracking, it's worth reminding ourselves of the inconsistent enforcement of existing environmental regulations. That so much of the enforcement resides with the states combines with the fact that industry insiders hold a tremendous number of regulatory positions to make...

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Shorter Susana Martinez: “I’d Have Deported My Own Grandparents”

By Erik Loomis

On September 9, 2011

New Mexico governor Susana Martinez (and someone who I'd recommend as a good Intrade bet for the Republican VP nominee) has made her name for cracking down on illegal immigration,.