People’s Mañanera September 30
President Sheinbaum’s daily press conference, with comments on housing, the environment, water, single nationality, Calderón, and the Lie Detector.
Environment
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Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala Present Plan to Protect 5.7 Million Hectares of the Great Maya Forest
One year after the Calakmul Declaration, the three countries unveiled a joint Regional Action Plan for a transboundary corridor that is home to over 2 million people.
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Sheinbaum Kicks Off the National Reforestation Day in Puebla; the Goal Is to Plant 6.6 Million Trees in a Day
Sheinbaum decreed the reforestation day an annual event and proposed renaming the Cortés Pass, between two volcanoes, the ‘Pass of the Indigenous Peoples.’
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Mexico’s Environmental Secretariat Says Ferromex Must Remediate the Damage From Chemical Spill in Sonora
The derailment dumped 70,300 liters of sodium hydrosulfide into a Sonora streambed, 11,000 more than first reported, contaminating 1.7 square kilometers.
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Mexico’s Environment Secretariat Halts Mining Companies: Demands Environmental Authorization in Protected Areas
The decree takes effect Tuesday and covers even pre-2023 concessions, with Supreme Court backing that holding a concession grants no automatic right to mine.
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Mexican Government Reports Progress in Atoyac Cleanup; Textile Discharges, Main Challenge: Sheinbaum
A year into a 20-billion-peso cleanup, authorities inspected 280 firms, fined 56 million pesos, and closed eight sites; dyeing runoff is hardest to curb.
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Return of 500 Species of Fauna and Flora to Lake Texcoco Shows the Importance of Not Having Built the NAICM: Sheinbaum
The former lakebed is a natural flood-regulating reservoir, and building there would have required permanently draining water at enormous cost, Sheinbaum said.
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REMA Accuses Zacatecas of Expediting Mining Project Approvals
The Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining believes the government is expediting environmental permits without considering the cumulative impacts in regions that already face overexploitation of aquifers & environmental degradation.
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Mexico’s Environmental Agency Shuts Down 6 Real Estate Developments in Cabo Pulmo
Cabo Pulmo in Baja California Sur enjoys the highest level of environmental protection in Mexico, as it is a national park.
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Recovering Mexico’s Bodies of Water: Essential & Preventive
After the storm, it’s worth asking ourselves how to prepare for future floods. Restoring the Earth’s runoff must be one of these priorities.
