Environmental Law Society (UNM School of Law)

11/16/2020

If you're looking for something to do this week, check out this opportunity!

In honor of Native American Heritage month, we invite you to join us for a virtual screening of the films "Water Flows Together" and "River of Return" followed by a panel discussion with Colleen Cooley, Lyle Balenquah, and Jessica and Sammy Matsaw.

A collaboration between Canyonlands Field Institute, River Newe, Spruce Tone Films, American Rivers, and NRS

Supported by: Utah Department of Arts and Museums

Registration link: https://bit.ly/32GILem

05/03/2020

04/02/2019

TONIGHT! Come learn about what the proposed Clean Water Rule revisions would mean for the West!

04/24/2018

Join us tomorrow for a lively and engaging evening with the former EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy! This is a wonderful opportunity, don't miss it! Please use the link below to register.

Subscribe to the Real Time YouTube: http://itsh.bo/10r5A1B Former EPA Administrator and Harvard Center for Health and the Global Environment Director Gina Mc...

01/30/2018

Join us tomorrow to hear from a panel of dynamic women in the field of environmental law!

10/19/2017

Join us tonight for the annual Environmental Law mixer hosted by the UNMSOL Environmental Law Society, the Natural Resources, Environmental, and Energy Law (NREEL) section of the New Mexico State Bar, and co-sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

09/20/2017

Please join us tonight for this exciting opportunity! Hope to see you all there!

09/18/2017

A representative from Martin Heinrich’s office has stated that there will be a rally this evening to protest the recent developments with the National Monuments. If any of you are available, please participate! If you have friends who might be interested and available, please share this info!

Date: Today – Monday, September 18, 2017
Place: The corner of Gold and 4th street (Simms Building)
Time: 5:00PM

09/07/2016

We are having our first general meeting of the semester today at 12:00 in room 3211. Please join us to hear about the exciting plans we have for the upcoming year.

08/31/2016

Don't miss this exciting opportunity to hear the experiences of a UNM Law alumni working in the field of environmental law!

08/18/2016

Thank you to all the incoming students who stopped by to talk to the board today at orientation. We look forward to working with you this coming year!

08/14/2016

Another article discussing water management on the Rio Grande.

More than 19 miles of the Rio Grande dried up in July along the Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge so ...

07/12/2016

An interesting update on a developing water law case regarding the interstate water compact between New Mexico and Texas.

-Mark

04/22/2016

ALBUQUERQUE — Nearly half of New Mexico’s Legislature is stepping into the fray between ranchers and the federal government over the fencing of watering holes on national forest land to protect an endangered mouse found in three Western states.

04/21/2016

Interesting story with a constitutional angle. I wonder if preemption is the key here? http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-mexico-to-sue-feds-over-release-of-wolves/article_312f83e2-f0b5-5500-afbe-6a2b341eac83.html

New Mexico wildlife officials said Wednesday they will sue the federal government over its plan to release Mexican gray wolves into the New Mexico and Arizona wilderness this summer.

04/20/2016

TODAY at the law school: Adrian Oglesby, director of the Utton Center, will be giving a talk on the thorny problem of invasive tamarisk trees along river corridors in the desert southwest -- and the misbegotten attempt to control them with the equally invasive tamarisk leaf-eating beetle. Talk begins at noon in room 2406. Free lunch!

03/05/2016

It was a beautiful day for a fun run, and the Spring Snowmelt Runoff was truly fun! Thanks to all who came out and kicked up your heels.

02/12/2016

Come one, come all!

02/12/2016

Come run with us at the ELS' "Spring Snowmelt Runoff!" 8 a.m. Saturday, March 5 at the UNM North golf course. Out-and-back course (~3 miles), t-shirts, and great prizes!

UNM School of Law Environmental Law Society News & Events

02/03/2016

The Environmental Law Society will host its annual career panel, with lunch beginning at 11:30 (and the hour-long panel to start at 11:45) in room 2401. Panelists include both litigators and government attorneys; see flyer for details. We hope you'll join us!

01/26/2016

ELS will have its first member meeting of the semester next Wednesday, Feb. 3, with lunch to begin at 11:30, brief announcements, and then a discussion about the Flint, Michigan water fiasco. Room TBA. Hope you'll join us!

12/15/2015

The other side of cheap oil:

Just over a month out from the beginning of the 2016 New Mexico legislative session, Grant County’s state senator and representatives are laying out their priorities for the new year. Before any plans can be discussed, though, there needs to be money. This is a short, 30-day session of the Legislatu…

11/14/2015

Since we just learned about the Gold King Mine spill from High Country News' Jonathan Thompson and our own Cliff Villa ...

A local mine cleanup success story holds lessons for dealing with the Gold King Mine spill, a state Environment Department official said Friday.

11/06/2015

U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and a handful of other Senate Democrats introduced a bill Thursday that would require hard-rock mining companies operating on federal lands to pay fees to help clean up the thousands of abandoned mines scattered across the country.

11/06/2015

Latest on the Gila ...

District Judge Francis J. Mathew of Santa Fe ruled Oct. 13 that the Interstate Stream Commission must retroactively approve the contracts with engineering firm Bohannan Hustonand RJH Consultants for work on the controversial Gila River project.

10/27/2015

The 2015 ELS Career Mixer was combined for the first time this year with the state bar's section for Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law (NREEL). More than 80 attorneys and students ate, drank, mingled and made connections. We are grateful for support from professors Cliff Villa and Alex Ritchie, and from Adrian Oglesby at the Utton Center, and funding from NREEL and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation!