Since 1987, the New Mexico Environmental Law Center has worked every day to protect New Mexico's water, land and air from toxic pollution; and to assist its many and diverse communities protect their environment.
Settlement Filed in American Cement Air Permit Case
After a two year struggle with the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Division over an air quality permit granted for the expansion of a cement transfer station, our clients, with assistance of the NMELC, arrived at a settlement with American Cement obtaining major environmental protection in just two days.
Our clients from the Greater Gardner Neighborhood Association and the North Valley Coalition of Neighborhood Associations obtained a technologically superior air particulate monitoring system and the creation of a Community Advisory Panel that will work with American Cement Company to assure environmentally friendly practices and good community relations. This is a major achievement in air quality regulation in the Albuquerque-Bernalillo area and the settlement will also provide a model for the use of mediation and stakeholder processes in the future.
The settlement, filed today, will go before the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board on a motion for approval and dismissal of the appeal on March 10, 2010.
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