Sunport Boulevard Extension Project - Health Impact Assessment HIP and partners recently submitted a comment letter to Bernalillo County that included the HIA, “Shining a Light on Health: How the Sunport Boulevard Extension Project Will Affect Health and Well-Being.” In...
Read MoreBernalillo County- HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT (HIA): Albuquerque Bernalillo County Comprehensive Plan (ABC CompPlan) Update – 2015 The Health Matters New Mexico (HP4NM) team received funding to conduct an HIA process in order to provide Health in All Policies (HiAP) recommendations...
Read MoreLobos CO2 Pipeline - Health Impact Assessment In October 2013, the energy corporation Kinder-Morgan proposed to build a 214-mile pipeline to bring carbon dioxide (CO2) mined in Arizona through New Mexico for use in enhanced oil recovery operations (commonly known...
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KUNM Call In Show 6/18 8a: There are well over 100 abandoned uranium mines in New Mexico, and most of them are on Navajo land. Many communities are still dealing with the health and environmental consequences of uranium contamination from mines…
Chainbreaker Collective - Health Impact Assessment The root of the problem is the lack of affordable housing in Santa Fe. A national report released recently shows that over half of all Santa Fe renters have unaffordable rents and that almost...
Read MoreSan Miguel County - Health Impact Assessment The New Mexico Highlands University School of Social Work and the NMHU Foundation, Inc. received a grant and partnered with the San Miguel County Detention Center and its Citizen Advisory Committee, the Las Vegas Peace &...
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Hearings on proposed Santolina master plan to start this week
Doña Ana Communities United - Health Impact Assessment The Doña Ana Communities United team was recently awarded funded to conduct a Health Impact Assessment (HIA) and will host the SW HIA training on November 17 & 18, 2014 in Las...
Read MoreMcKinley County - Looking Within: A Health Impact Assessment on Uranium Mining In July 1979 at the United Nuclear Corporations’ uranium processing mill in Northwest New Mexico, a dam broke releasing more than 1,100 tons of uranium mining wastes-tailings along with...
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