Albuquerque City Council Targets Air Quality Rulemaking

11.17.23 – Our Land’s Laura Paskus sat down with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center’s Eric Jantz to understand how two bills passed by the Albuquerque City Council will affect efforts by a South Valley community to protect itself from pollution. The two also talked about how industry and many lawmakers claim environmental regulations harm economic development—but how the history of environmental protections in the U.S. doesn’t support that claim. 

Correspondent: Laura Paskus 

Guest: Eric Jantz, legal director, New Mexico Environmental Law Center 

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