San Agustin Plains map
Map of the Plains of San Agustin, the bed of a large, deep Pleistocene lake located 50 miles west of Socorro, New Mexico. Source: New Mexico Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources

Stuff you need to know, 4.16.24

Today’s intelligence from state and/or national reporting

“Water Win for Southern New Mexico!”
Press Release, New Mexico Environmental Law Center
April 11, 2024

Court ruling protects San Agustin Plains groundwater from out-of-state water grab.

Click on the above link to read the release.

“New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds”
by Aliya Uteuova, The Guardian
April 16, 2024

Last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that stripped the EPA of authority to impose important Clean Water Act protections left more than 90 percent of New Mexico’s surface waters with no pollution safeguards. State legislators have passed with compensatory legislation, but it is up to Congress to restore and defend federal protections.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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