Common Ground Community Trust

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A paycheck does not cancel your right to clean water. A promise of jobs does not excuse unlawful environmental review.

Heinrich and Whitehouse’s proposed “affordability and jobs” bill would weaken communities’ ability to challenge NEPA violations and let authorized projects continue while agencies correct unlawful review. Who pays when development goes wrong? The families facing illness, lost income, and damaged land and water.

My essay examines the provisions—and the myth that environmental protection must be sacrificed for jobs.

Read it. Share it. Demand removal of these restrictions before the bill advances.

📞 Heinrich: 202-224-5521
📞 Whitehouse: 202-224-2921

Affordability for Whom? Centrist Democrats Must Stop the Attack on Environmental Accountability Heinrich and Whitehouse Would Let Developers Keep Building After NEPA Violations—While Stripping Communities of the Power to Stop Them.

Welcome to Lake Castelion, on the shores of Project Ranger. The West Mesa’s newest waterfront attraction: muddy floodwater beside a missile factory.

The project’s construction-stormwater permit number is NMR1007JS. Where is the enforcement by EPA or NMED? A permit on paper means nothing without inspections, accountability, and enforcement.

Water does not obey property lines. Before operations begin, the public deserves the drainage studies, stormwater controls, and a clear accounting of how our aquifer will be protected. Show us the records.

Nature’s Way and the Slow Creep of Closed Authoritarian Decisions How New Mexico’s fragmented decisions silence public warnings while industrial projects reshape the living systems we share

New Mexico and an AI financing crash: what to watch and what to protect Project Jupiter’s strained financing is a warning: New Mexico must keep the costs of an AI downturn with investors, not communities.