NREEL Newsletters

Newsletters of the section are in PDF format.

• Newsletter - Winter 2012
  Muddying the Waters: The Fight Over Relinquishment Credit -
  Luke Pierpont
  Rising Tide: Will the Challenges to Stream Access Laws that are Spreading Across the West Spill Over into the New Mexico Waters? -
  Jason Kerkmans
  Has the Sun Set on the Solar Industry in the United States? -
  Sean FitzPatrick
  The Indian Water Rights Settlements E-Repository - A Tool for the Future - Dominique M. Work
  The Wallow Fire Field Trip
  
• Newsletter - Summer 2011
  Would You Rather Have Warm Homes or Clean Water?The Implications of Hydraulic Fracturing in New Mexico - Monica Moya
  Renewing Uranium Mining in New Mexico: Morris v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Ana Romero Jurisson
  Protecting New Mexico Waters Through ONRW Designation -
  Samantha Ruscavage-Barz
  Lea County Aqufers: From Prospecting for Fresh Aquifer Water When Compounding Production Fluids to the Prospect of Recycling Existing Production Fluids - D.W. Vitt
  New Legislation Aims High, Falls Short of Resident Hunter's Expectations-
  Aaron Martin
• Newsletter - Winter 2011
  New Mexico Adopts a Regional Cap and Trade Program - Joshua Granata
  Aquí No Hay Ni Agua: Lack of Access to Environmental Justice in New Mexico Colonias - Bridgette Mullins
  Small Hydropower in New Mexico - John Verheul
  
• Newsletter - Summer 2010
  Re-re-engineering Our Rivers: New Mexico's Biggest Efforts to
  Save its Smallest Fish - Keri Hatley
  More Water or Our Last Wild River? The 2004 Arizona Water Settlements Act and New Mexico's Big Decision - J. Ryland Hutchins
  Colorado Supreme Court Decision Illuminates the Disjunction Between
  New Mexico's Produced Water Exemption and the Beneficial Use
  Doctrine As Applied to Coal Bed Methane - Aaron Weede Martin
  Update from the New Mexico Environment Department - Felicia Orth
  Spur Ranch CLE Trip a Great Success - Jennifer Pruett
  
• Newsletter - Summer 2009
  NREEL's 2009 Legislative Update: Legislators Consider Regulatory
  Roll -Backs - Kristin Casper
  Renewable Energy Development and Wildlife: Mitigating the Impacts of
  Wind Energy on the Lesser Prairie-Chicken in New Mexico - Sally Paez
  Taos Regional Water Plan: Taoseños Tell the State Engineer what
  'Public Welfare' Means to Them - Keri Hatley
  Dairies in New Mexico: The Environmental Implications of a
  New Industry - Professor Denise D. Fort
  
• Newsletter - Winter 2009
  Domestic Wells: Growing by Leaps and Bounds? - Keri Hatley
  Local Responses to Environmental Issues: The Taos Community
  and Questa Mine - Nick Gilbert
  Science and Diplomacy: The Bellagio Draft Treaty and the
  Transboundary Aquifer Assessment Act - Patrick Schaefer
  
• Newsletter - Summer 2008
  Instream Flow Protection in New Mexico -
  a 2008 Update - Patrick Redmond
  Unadjudicated Reserved Water Rights: Tensions Between Montana
  and the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes - Christina Kracher
  New Mexico's Climate Future: Addressing Legal Issues in Carbon Sequestration - Adam Rankin
  
• Newsletter - Spring 2007
  Environmental Justice Efforts at the State Level -
  Samantha M. Ruscavage-Barz
  A Rocky Road to Progress? Gravel Mining in a Growing New Mexico
  and the Velarde Gravel Cases - William Consuegra
  United States Supreme Court Invalidates EPA's Inaction On Greenhouse
  Gas Emissions: Massachussetts v. EPA - Charles de Saillan
  Natural Resource Damage Liability of the U.S. Department of Energy -
  Karen L. Reed
  Fourth Annual Water Policy CLE Focus on the Utton Center Model
  Interstate Water Compact - Marilyn O'Leary
  
• Newsletter - Winter 2006
  EPA's Authority and Willingness to Regulate Auto Emissions Affecting
  Climate Change: Some Insights from Massachussetts v. EPA -
  Samantha M. Ruscavage-Barz
  The Effect of Global Warming on Native Peoples and How They Are
  Responding - Abby Wear
  Law School Update - Amanda Wang
  Section CLE News - Marilyn O'Leary
  
• Newsletter - Spring 2006
  The Promise of Recycled Water and the Return Flow Woes -
  Joshua Mann
  Well, "At the Well" Is Not the Answer - J.E. (Gene) Gallegos
  The Clean Air Mercury Rule, Coal-burning Power Plants and New Mexico's
  Water: What's the Connection? - Jennifer Hower
  Three Card Monte or Bad Law - Alex Beattie
  Countervailing Equities: The New Mexico Legislature's Search for Harmony at The Nexus of Water and Mineral Law - Mark S. Barron
  
• Newsletter - December 2005
  Negotiating "Pipeline" Dreams - Alex Beattie
  Breaking Ground in New Mexico: The Role of the Accommodation Doctrine in Determining a Mineral Owner's Obilgation to Compensate Landowners for Damage to the Surface - Mark S. Barron
  Blowing in the Wind: How Many Generations Must Pass Before Indians Receive Proper Royalties on Their Oil and Gas? - Josh Mann
  
• Newsletter - June 2005
  The Sleeping Giant on the San Juan - Joshua Mann
  The Pending New Mexico Supreme Court Decision in Herrington v. State ex rel. Office of State Engineer: Will it Affect the Future of New Mexico Water Management Policy? - Gabriel Wade
  An Overview of Government Incentives Aimed at Increasing Geothermal Electric Development in the United States - Carlos Ruiz de la Torre
  
• Newsletter - Fall 2002
  Congress Amends the Superfund Law and Enacts Brownfields
  Legislation: The Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields
  Revitalization Act - William Brancard
  Legislature Enacts House Bills 417, 421 to Address Water Issues in the Pecos River Basin - Daniel Rubin
  The Ethics 2000 Process: Revisions to the ABA Model Rules Approved by the ABA House of Delegates - Irma S. Russell
  
• Newsletter - Spring 2001
  New Mexico's Enabling Act - Steve Hughes
  
• Newsletter - Winter 2000
  The Electric Utility Industry Restructuring Act of 1999: Early Steps
  Toward Implementation - Patrick T. Ortiz
  Consumptive Use: Statutorily Undefined But an OSE Standard -
  Jeffrey H. Albright
  
• Newsletter - Summer 2000
  Retroactively Applied Reclamation Law is Constitutional, But Does Not
  Apply To Company's Uranium Mines, According to New Mexico Court -
  Stuart R. Butzier
  Joint Development of Potash and Oil and Gas Reserves; The Tenth Circuit Defers to the IBLA Rather Than to BLM - Stuart R. Butzier
  Fifth Circuit Rejects International Environmental Claims Brough Against Mining Company Operating In Indonesia - Stuart R. Butzier