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Center for Biological Diversity

National environmental nonprofit; a party of record in the Project Jupiter air-permit hearing (counsel Colin Cox and Gail Evans) and a protestor on the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.

verification: confirmed

A national environmental nonprofit that is a party to the air-permit hearing, a protestor on the Green Chile pipeline at FERC, and the petitioner in the emergency-well case before the state Supreme Court.

At a glance

Kind: Nonprofit
Role in the project: Intervenor or party to a proceeding · Litigant
Key people: Colin Cox · Gail Evans
Public position: Publicly opposes the project — Joined the coalition protest against the Green Chile pipeline at FERC.^[2]
Verification: confirmed — Two independent accounts agree
In the record: 2 sources · 2 connections · 5 dated entries
Record id: PJO113

Key facts

A party of record in the air-permit hearing, with counsel Colin Cox and Gail Evans.^[1]
2026-01-09Filed its protest against the emergency well on the January 9, 2026 deadline, one of thirty-two protests on file.
2026-08-19With the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, moved on August 19, 2026 to disqualify hearing officer Max Shepherd, who recused three days later.
2026-08-20Filed a 151-page emergency petition against the State Engineer on August 20, 2026, citing a meter record of 318.001 acre-feet drawn from the new well between April 14 and July 31, 2026.
2026-09-17The Supreme Court stayed the emergency well authorization on August 23, 2026, then denied the petition and lifted the stay on September 17, 2026.
Protested the Green Chile pipeline at FERC as part of a coalition.^[2]

The record

One of the two environmental groups that became formal parties to the permit hearing — and the one that moved to reverse the hearing officer after he pulled the hearing five weeks earlier.

Relationships · 2

Staffed by· 2

In the timeline · 5

Jul 29, 2026Two days later, the hearing moves five weeks earlier Aug 7–10, 2026The applicant files a brief the rules do not allow Aug 19, 2026The motion to remove the hearing officer Aug 22, 2026The hearing officer steps aside Sep 17, 2026The Supreme Court denies both petitions and lifts both stays

Dated entries in the record that involve this party. Appearing here is not an allegation — it means the graph draws an edge from this dossier to that event.

Claims involving them · 1

One unit was tested. The permit scales it to 2,462 megawatts.primary-source

Sources · 2

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