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Susanne Hoffman-Dooley, Esq.
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Stone Forest
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Persis Suddeth
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Andrea Escher and Todd Tibbals
Mary Toll
Jere and Harry Turner
E.H. Uhlenhuth, M.D.
Eric Unzicker, MD
Alice Van Buren
Ann Koshel van Buren and
Thomas van Buren
D.D. Van Soelen
Roderick Ventura and Jo Haddad
Susan M. Verkamp
Donna and John Vogel
Adair L. Waldenberg and Jon K. Peck
Stephen M. Walker
Andrew Wallerstein, Avalon Trust
Richard and Carol Warren
Marcia and Jim Weatherstone
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Anne Heath Widmark
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John Willett
Floy and Joe Williams
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Aletta Wilson
Mark Winne
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Janet Wise
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Patricia Wood
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Virgil Lee
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013
NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
“ NMELC is a leading environmental justice advocate in the state,
incredibly persistent and dedicated, remarkably effective in
both the courtroom and the Roundhouse! ”
– Kristina Fisher
A Look Back at 2013
Thank you for being part of the
New Mexico Environmental Law
Center. In 2013, you made a
tremendous difference for our
communities and our resources,
during a time when they needed
you the most.
over by her appointees, and the appointees of her appointees.
And it shows.
But courtrooms are another matter. There, judges are striking
down the illegal, anti-environment and anti-public decisions
made by the Administration. The decisions that are coming out
of courtrooms are good news for communities throughout our
state…and bad news for an Administration that is still trying
to evade the law.
Three years into the administration of Governor Susana
Martinez, we had one foot in administrative hearing rooms,
and one foot in judicial courtrooms. They are both important
arenas for New Mexico’s environment and communities.
You’re making it possible for us to win those critical decisions –
some of which are discussed in this Annual Report.
Thank you.
Administrative rulemakings (where regulations like the
Copper Rule and Pit Rule were born and gutted, respectively)
are held on the Governor’s home turf. They are presided
Yours truly,
Douglas Meiklejohn
E xe c u tiv e D ir e c to r
2014 Board of Directors
Paul Mitchell, President, Albuquerque
Frank I. Sanchez, Vice-President, Roswell
Susanne Hoffman-Dooley,
Secretary, Santa Fe
Harry Browne, Treasurer, Silver City
Myron Armijo, Santa Ana Pueblo
Stuart Bluestone, Santa Fe
Sandy Buffett, Santa Fe
Diana Bustamante, La Mesa
Michael Casaus, Albuquerque
Eileen Gauna, Albuquerque
Donna House, Alcalde
Renee Ingold, Fallbrook, CA
Leona Morgan, Albuquerque
Kitty Richards, Albuquerque
Fiscal Year 2013 Unaudited Financial Report ( January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2013)
Total Income: $ 797,181.
5.5% Membership
1.9% Other
Total Expenses: $ 817,046.
8.9% Administration
32.2%
Native American
16.3%
Development &
Fundraising
19.6%
Major Donors
INCOME
EXPENSES
5%
Fees &Cost
Reimbursements
STAFF
Jonathan M. Block, Staff Attorney
Juana Colón, Communications Officer
Bruce Frederick, Staff Attorney
Eric Jantz, Staff Attorney
Shelbie Knox, Development Officer
Elizabeth Lee, Director of Philanthropy
Douglas Meiklejohn, Executive Director
Yana Merrill, Director of Administration
and Finance
Baxter, Bodhi, Lulu and Maury,
Office Dogs
The Law Center keeps its books according to “Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles” (GAAP), which require us to book the entirety of a multi-year grant in the
year that we receive the grant pledge. While that system keeps us in the good graces
of the IRS, it can make our Annual Reports appear unbalanced. For instance, using the
GAAP system, it seems that our expenses exceeded our revenue in 2013. In reality,
we received payments for several grants that were booked in previous years, and
met all of our expenses last year.
If you have any questions about our accounting, please email Yana Merrill, Director
of Administration and Finance at [email protected], or call (505) 989-9022.
The Law Center staff and board sincerely thank
the contributors who make our work possible. ➤
Top10 ways you made a difference in 2013
1
Contributions made January 1 – December 31, 2013
Victory for public participation in the
Mount Taylor uranium mine case.
7
NMELC won a major victory that requires the
State to take public input into account when
making decisions about uranium and other
hardrock mines.
As water becomes more valuable, speculators are attempting
new ways to get a hold of New Mexico’s scarce
supply; 2013 saw us in a multi-week hearing
in front of the State Engineer, fighting to
keep a developer from grabbing rights to
water in the East Mountains. We expect a
decision in 2014.
I
2 Victory for government transparency
in Energy Conservation Codes case.
NMELC affirmed a legal requirement that
State decision-makers must explain the reasons
for their decisions.
Mineris Vitae, LLC asked the NM Mining
Commission to change the Mining Act
regulations so that the company could
operate bigger humate mines with fewer rules. After we
made our argument against the scheme, the Commission
gave the company just a fraction of what it asked for.
And we convinced legislators that they should not exempt
humate mines from the Mining Act.
4
Built strong case for appeal in Copper Rule case.
NMELC took part in a challenging
rulemaking in 2013, in which the Water
Quality Control Commission overturned
more than three decades of regulations,
policies and court rulings to allow an entire
industry to pollute groundwater. But we
built a strong record, and now we’ve taken
the Commission to the Court of Appeals.
5
Built strong case for appeal in Oil & Gas Pit Rule case.
Community Response (local)
State-Level casework
National-level casework
Challenged State’s failure to regulate
industrial dairies.
Where there are good environmental
regulations in place, like the Dairy Rule, the
New Mexico Environment Department has
suspended enforcement of them. With your
help, we're working with citizens who live
near dairies to hold the line on existing
protections, get contaminated water cleaned
up and prevent new contamination from occurring.
9 Successfully killed every bad environmental bill
6 Still no new uranium mining in
New Mexico!
18 years after the Law Center became
involved in the fight to stop new uranium
mining in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo
Nation, no new mines have opened. But
we now have 17 uranium cases on our docket, ranging
from advocating for the cleanup of Cold War-era mines
and a mill to preventing the opening of new mines.
With clients from the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment
(MASE), following our Mount Taylor victory in District Court. From left:
Doug Meiklejohn, Nadine Padilla and Laura Watchempino (MASE),
Staff Attorney Eric Jantz, Candace Head-Dylla (MASE), law clerk
Lisa Franceware, and Petuuche Gilbert.
➤
In another rulemaking that favored industry profit over
groundwater protection, the Oil Conservation Commission
gutted New Mexico’s Pit Rule (which governs the
waste from oil and gas drilling.) Again, you made it
possible to build a strong case during the hearing,
and now we’ve taken the
Commission to court.
NMELC 2013 Docket
© Photo credit Ted Bigham
3
8
Victory in defending New Mexico
Mining Act from assault by humate
mining industry.
Challenged a water grab in East Mountains
near Albuquerque.
we tracked during the legislative session.
It’s hard to protect the environment and
communities when bad laws are on the
books. That’s why NMELC attorneys
spend much of the legislative session
working to defeat industry-sponsored
legislation that would harm our natural
resources and threaten community
wellbeing.
10 Began defense of Mora County
ban on oil and gas extraction.
Mora County came to the Law Center
to defend its landmark county-level ban
on oil and gas extraction – the first of its
kind in the U.S. Litigation began in December 2013 in
federal district court and will continue through 2014.
Green Business Partners
A-1 Self Storage
Margo Cutler, Ltd., Real Estate
Dunbar Stained Glass
Grace Communications
Green Fire Times
Greenmoney Journal
Handprinted Note Paper Ent.
HurleyMedia
Ink Well Productions
KESHI, the Zuni Connection
Lilley Law Offices
The Mad Potter
Neil Lyon at Sotheby's International Realty
Resources for Change
Positive Energy
Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce
Southwest Seminars
Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen
Verve Gallery of Photography
Foundations & Donor
Advised Funds
Anonymous
100+ Women Who Care in Santa Fe
Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Trust
Blair-Weisfeld Fund, Santa Fe Community
Foundation
Sandford and Jane Brickner Advised Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Brindle Foundation
Harold and Norma Brown Environmental
Fund, Santa Fe Community Foundation
Caprock Fund of Tides Foundation on
recommendation of Ms. Kappy Wells
Castagnola Family Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Chamisa Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Susan and Conrad De Jong Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Douglass Family Foundation
James M. Ewell Charitable Trust
EMA Foundation
Nancy and Thomas Florsheim Family
Foundation
Just Woke Up Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Employee
Matching Grant
The Kindle Project Fund of the Common
Counsel Foundation
Charlotte L. Kiser Charitable Trust
Lannan Foundation
The Max and Anna Levinson Foundation
Maki Foundation
McCune Charitable Foundation
Mumford Family Foundation
New Cycle Foundation
New Mexico Community Foundation
New Mexico Supreme Court's IOLTA
Program
New Society Fund
New-Land Foundation
Eric Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Phil and Quarrier Cook, via
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Richard and Rachel Fund,
New Mexico Community Foundation
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Second Anonymous Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Solidago Foundation
Stuart M. Bluestone Charitable Fund,
New Mexico Community Foundation
The Sulica Fund
Thornburg Foundation
Turner Foundation, Inc.
United Way of Northern New Mexico
Individual Donors
Anonymous
Carol and Thomas Aageson
Rick and Kathy Abeles
Rachel Aberly
Ann Aceves
Mercedes M. Agogino, Ph.D.
Richard Khanlian and Ann Alexander, M.D.
Dr. Daniel and Cynthia Allan
Charmay Allred
Debra Anderson
Neal Apple and Vicki Allen
Amber Archer
Su Anne Armstrong and Ted Hopkins
Ann Griffith Ash
Jack and Diane Bacastow
Janice Bandrofchak and J. Cleveland Sharp
Paul Bardacke and Lisa Enfield
Susan Bardes
Avelina Bardwell, M.D.
Barbara Bastle
Mike Batte and Wanda Kile
Ann Hardy Batum
William Baxter
Anne E. Beckett
Susan Bell
Reed and Melinda Benson
Jean L. Bergeron
Amy Bertelli
Crawford Best
Paul and Ellen Biderman
Garland Bills
Bonnie Binkert
Fred and Daryl Black
Joyce Blalock
Jonathan Block and Kathy Glaser-Block
Thomas Blog
Tara Bloyd and Peter Norby
Stuart M. Bluestone, Esq.
Elspeth G. Bobbs
Sanford and Jane Brickner
Grace Brill and Daniel Schwartz
William and Margaret Briney
Murray and Cindy Brott
Michael Browde
Donald and Lynda Brown
Timothy Brown
Harry Browne
Ingrid Bucher
J & M Buchholz
Sandy Buffett
Mary Anne Burkard
A. Janine and L.D. Burke
David and Hannah Burling
Mary Ellen Burns-Gonzales
Virginia Burris
Anne Burton
Jay Bush and Peggy Rudberg
Diana Bustamante, Ph.D.
Helen Cahn
Christopher Calvert
Joyce Carden
Lawrence Carreon
Michael Casaus
Lee Casias
John Catron
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Catron
Rod Chambers
Susan Chappell, Esq.
Wendy Chase
Matthew and Julie Chase-Daniel
Barbara Chatterjee
Peter and Elizabeth Chestnut
Esha Chiocchio
Cynde Van Patten Christie
P.R. Christie
Anne Christopher
Kathleen and Hugh Church
Jack and Cindy Clark
Cecilia Clark
Lucy and Charles Cloyes
Camille Coates
Julee Coffman
A.T. and Cinda Cole
Corinne Collins
Kenneth Alan Collins
Juana Colon
Carol Condie
Donna Connolly
Dianne C.Cress and Jon B. McCorkell
Michael and Jennie Crews
David Crocker
Bill and Liz Crosman
Nancy Dahl
Kim Davis
Charles and Helen Davis
Glen DeGarmo, M.D.
Michael and Sheryl DeGenring
Allison Dellinger and Ches Hortenstine
Anita Deming
Elaine Diers
David Doezema, M.D.
continued on next page
The Law Center staff and board sincerely thank
the contributors who make our work possible. ➤
Top10 ways you made a difference in 2013
1
Contributions made January 1 – December 31, 2013
Victory for public participation in the
Mount Taylor uranium mine case.
7
NMELC won a major victory that requires the
State to take public input into account when
making decisions about uranium and other
hardrock mines.
As water becomes more valuable, speculators are attempting
new ways to get a hold of New Mexico’s scarce
supply; 2013 saw us in a multi-week hearing
in front of the State Engineer, fighting to
keep a developer from grabbing rights to
water in the East Mountains. We expect a
decision in 2014.
I
2 Victory for government transparency
in Energy Conservation Codes case.
NMELC affirmed a legal requirement that
State decision-makers must explain the reasons
for their decisions.
Mineris Vitae, LLC asked the NM Mining
Commission to change the Mining Act
regulations so that the company could
operate bigger humate mines with fewer rules. After we
made our argument against the scheme, the Commission
gave the company just a fraction of what it asked for.
And we convinced legislators that they should not exempt
humate mines from the Mining Act.
4
Built strong case for appeal in Copper Rule case.
NMELC took part in a challenging
rulemaking in 2013, in which the Water
Quality Control Commission overturned
more than three decades of regulations,
policies and court rulings to allow an entire
industry to pollute groundwater. But we
built a strong record, and now we’ve taken
the Commission to the Court of Appeals.
5
Built strong case for appeal in Oil & Gas Pit Rule case.
Community Response (local)
State-Level casework
National-level casework
Challenged State’s failure to regulate
industrial dairies.
Where there are good environmental
regulations in place, like the Dairy Rule, the
New Mexico Environment Department has
suspended enforcement of them. With your
help, we're working with citizens who live
near dairies to hold the line on existing
protections, get contaminated water cleaned
up and prevent new contamination from occurring.
9 Successfully killed every bad environmental bill
6 Still no new uranium mining in
New Mexico!
18 years after the Law Center became
involved in the fight to stop new uranium
mining in the Eastern Agency of the Navajo
Nation, no new mines have opened. But
we now have 17 uranium cases on our docket, ranging
from advocating for the cleanup of Cold War-era mines
and a mill to preventing the opening of new mines.
With clients from the Multicultural Alliance for a Safe Environment
(MASE), following our Mount Taylor victory in District Court. From left:
Doug Meiklejohn, Nadine Padilla and Laura Watchempino (MASE),
Staff Attorney Eric Jantz, Candace Head-Dylla (MASE), law clerk
Lisa Franceware, and Petuuche Gilbert.
➤
In another rulemaking that favored industry profit over
groundwater protection, the Oil Conservation Commission
gutted New Mexico’s Pit Rule (which governs the
waste from oil and gas drilling.) Again, you made it
possible to build a strong case during the hearing,
and now we’ve taken the
Commission to court.
NMELC 2013 Docket
© Photo credit Ted Bigham
3
8
Victory in defending New Mexico
Mining Act from assault by humate
mining industry.
Challenged a water grab in East Mountains
near Albuquerque.
we tracked during the legislative session.
It’s hard to protect the environment and
communities when bad laws are on the
books. That’s why NMELC attorneys
spend much of the legislative session
working to defeat industry-sponsored
legislation that would harm our natural
resources and threaten community
wellbeing.
10 Began defense of Mora County
ban on oil and gas extraction.
Mora County came to the Law Center
to defend its landmark county-level ban
on oil and gas extraction – the first of its
kind in the U.S. Litigation began in December 2013 in
federal district court and will continue through 2014.
Green Business Partners
A-1 Self Storage
Margo Cutler, Ltd., Real Estate
Dunbar Stained Glass
Grace Communications
Green Fire Times
Greenmoney Journal
Handprinted Note Paper Ent.
HurleyMedia
Ink Well Productions
KESHI, the Zuni Connection
Lilley Law Offices
The Mad Potter
Neil Lyon at Sotheby's International Realty
Resources for Change
Positive Energy
Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce
Southwest Seminars
Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen
Verve Gallery of Photography
Foundations & Donor
Advised Funds
Anonymous
100+ Women Who Care in Santa Fe
Jonathan and Kathleen Altman Trust
Blair-Weisfeld Fund, Santa Fe Community
Foundation
Sandford and Jane Brickner Advised Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Brindle Foundation
Harold and Norma Brown Environmental
Fund, Santa Fe Community Foundation
Caprock Fund of Tides Foundation on
recommendation of Ms. Kappy Wells
Castagnola Family Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Chamisa Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Susan and Conrad De Jong Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Douglass Family Foundation
James M. Ewell Charitable Trust
EMA Foundation
Nancy and Thomas Florsheim Family
Foundation
Just Woke Up Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation Employee
Matching Grant
The Kindle Project Fund of the Common
Counsel Foundation
Charlotte L. Kiser Charitable Trust
Lannan Foundation
The Max and Anna Levinson Foundation
Maki Foundation
McCune Charitable Foundation
Mumford Family Foundation
New Cycle Foundation
New Mexico Community Foundation
New Mexico Supreme Court's IOLTA
Program
New Society Fund
New-Land Foundation
Eric Oppenheimer Family Foundation
Phil and Quarrier Cook, via
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Richard and Rachel Fund,
New Mexico Community Foundation
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Second Anonymous Fund,
Santa Fe Community Foundation
Solidago Foundation
Stuart M. Bluestone Charitable Fund,
New Mexico Community Foundation
The Sulica Fund
Thornburg Foundation
Turner Foundation, Inc.
United Way of Northern New Mexico
Individual Donors
Anonymous
Carol and Thomas Aageson
Rick and Kathy Abeles
Rachel Aberly
Ann Aceves
Mercedes M. Agogino, Ph.D.
Richard Khanlian and Ann Alexander, M.D.
Dr. Daniel and Cynthia Allan
Charmay Allred
Debra Anderson
Neal Apple and Vicki Allen
Amber Archer
Su Anne Armstrong and Ted Hopkins
Ann Griffith Ash
Jack and Diane Bacastow
Janice Bandrofchak and J. Cleveland Sharp
Paul Bardacke and Lisa Enfield
Susan Bardes
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1405 Luisa Street, Suite 5, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505.989.9022 telephone | 505.989.3769 fax | www.nmelc.org
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ANNUAL REPORT 2013
NEW MEXICO ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
“ NMELC is a leading environmental justice advocate in the state,
incredibly persistent and dedicated, remarkably effective in
both the courtroom and the Roundhouse! ”
– Kristina Fisher
A Look Back at 2013
Thank you for being part of the
New Mexico Environmental Law
Center. In 2013, you made a
tremendous difference for our
communities and our resources,
during a time when they needed
you the most.
over by her appointees, and the appointees of her appointees.
And it shows.
But courtrooms are another matter. There, judges are striking
down the illegal, anti-environment and anti-public decisions
made by the Administration. The decisions that are coming out
of courtrooms are good news for communities throughout our
state…and bad news for an Administration that is still trying
to evade the law.
Three years into the administration of Governor Susana
Martinez, we had one foot in administrative hearing rooms,
and one foot in judicial courtrooms. They are both important
arenas for New Mexico’s environment and communities.
You’re making it possible for us to win those critical decisions –
some of which are discussed in this Annual Report.
Thank you.
Administrative rulemakings (where regulations like the
Copper Rule and Pit Rule were born and gutted, respectively)
are held on the Governor’s home turf. They are presided
Yours truly,
Douglas Meiklejohn
E xe c u tiv e D ir e c to r
2014 Board of Directors
Paul Mitchell, President, Albuquerque
Frank I. Sanchez, Vice-President, Roswell
Susanne Hoffman-Dooley,
Secretary, Santa Fe
Harry Browne, Treasurer, Silver City
Myron Armijo, Santa Ana Pueblo
Stuart Bluestone, Santa Fe
Sandy Buffett, Santa Fe
Diana Bustamante, La Mesa
Michael Casaus, Albuquerque
Eileen Gauna, Albuquerque
Donna House, Alcalde
Renee Ingold, Fallbrook, CA
Leona Morgan, Albuquerque
Kitty Richards, Albuquerque
Fiscal Year 2013 Unaudited Financial Report ( January 1, 2013 – December 31, 2013)
Total Income: $ 797,181.
5.5% Membership
1.9% Other
Total Expenses: $ 817,046.
8.9% Administration
32.2%
Native American
16.3%
Development &
Fundraising
19.6%
Major Donors
INCOME
EXPENSES
5%
Fees &Cost
Reimbursements
STAFF
Jonathan M. Block, Staff Attorney
Juana Colón, Communications Officer
Bruce Frederick, Staff Attorney
Eric Jantz, Staff Attorney
Shelbie Knox, Development Officer
Elizabeth Lee, Director of Philanthropy
Douglas Meiklejohn, Executive Director
Yana Merrill, Director of Administration
and Finance
Baxter, Bodhi, Lulu and Maury,
Office Dogs
The Law Center keeps its books according to “Generally Accepted Accounting
Principles” (GAAP), which require us to book the entirety of a multi-year grant in the
year that we receive the grant pledge. While that system keeps us in the good graces
of the IRS, it can make our Annual Reports appear unbalanced. For instance, using the
GAAP system, it seems that our expenses exceeded our revenue in 2013. In reality,
we received payments for several grants that were booked in previous years, and
met all of our expenses last year.
If you have any questions about our accounting, please email Yana Merrill, Director
of Administration and Finance at [email protected], or call (505) 989-9022.