Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Industry, environmental groups agree on new dairy regulations
The New Mexico Environment Department announced an agreement between representatives from the dairy industry and environmental groups on new dairy regulations. Environment Secretary David Martin said the deal ends an impasse created by dairy discharge rules approved by the Water Quality Control Commission in December 2010. Supporters of the accord include the Dairy Industry Group for a Clean Environment and representatives from Amigos Bravos, Caballo Concerned Citizens and the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter. The Dairy Industry Group appealed the original rules in January as overly burdensome and unnecessarily rigid in protecting ground water. The new agreement requires all dairies to install monitoring wells, but limits the requirement for installation of synthetic liners to new dairy facilities and to dairies that have had leaking impoundments...more
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