Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC-YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permit Application

Comment From: Taylor Amormino

7/06/26 @ 10:17 PM

I reject the progression of this project.

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Comment From: Veena Patel

7/06/26 @ 10:16 PM

New Mexicans will not stand for this climate injustice and careless disregard for our safety and our future. Vote no!

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Comment From: Zane Nordquist

7/06/26 @ 10:16 PM

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Comment From: Daniel Gallegos

7/06/26 @ 10:14 PM

These permits must be denied. Project Jupiter will be responsible for dumping insane amounts of carbon pollution into the air, ruining our beautiful state, and raising local temperatures up to unlivable degrees. This will literally kill New Mexicans,...↓

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Comment From: Jordan Huizar

7/06/26 @ 10:14 PM

I oppose project Jupiter, and do not believe it is in the best interest of our state and our resources. NO to project Jupiter!

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Comment From: Roxanne Lester

7/06/26 @ 10:12 PM

We continue to see the exploitation of New Mexico's beautiful open land for out-of-state profit that returns nothing to our people. Building an AI data center here completely disregards and diminishes the agricultural and environmental crisis we are ...↓

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Comment From: Jessica Barfield

7/06/26 @ 10:10 PM

Nothing says trustworthy like changing the name of a massive data center right before a deadline! I oppose this project because of the massive environmental impact it will have on our state. Why do we need this? It's not just for weird flyers and awf...↓

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Comment From: Matthew Winter

7/06/26 @ 10:09 PM

New Mexico's residents are facing unprecedented threats in the form of drought, forest fires and heat waves. Data centers act to directly increase the severity of these threats, and with few benefits for the communities they harm. Any elected officia...↓

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Comment From: Annabelle Berg

7/06/26 @ 10:08 PM

County commissioners predict that the Jupiter AI data center will use up to 1 million gallons per day to run. This much water usage will not only cause the cost of water and water bills to skyrocket, but it also risks bleeding the Rio Grande, the lif...↓

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Comment From: Earl Cason

7/06/26 @ 10:08 PM

To the New Mexico Environment Department, Air Quality Bureau: I am a resident of Doña Ana County in Southern New Mexico. I am writing to express my concerns over the air permit application for Project Jupiter. The more research I do, the more concern...↓s I have, and I do not have time to write out all of this before the deadline. The short version, though, is that I am opposed to the approval of these air permits on both an individual level and on the level of our community. One household member has chronic illness and is immune compromised; an increase in pollution in our area will only make life harder for us. Similarly, one of our young children has asthma, and declining air quality will likely exacerbate this condition. On the level of our community, we live in a hot, dry climate and our region is very poor. There seems to be a risk that the proposed microgrid power plant could create an increase in ambient temperatures in the surrounding area due to waste heat, and I would ask that the applicants be required to analyze this impact if they have not. Many people in the vicinity of the proposed power plant are likely to already be without air conditioning; any increase in heat will cause increased hardship. On top of this, the facility's enormous carbon emissions would worsen the very heat and smog our region already struggles with during the summer.
I have concerns that the microgrid power plant plan appears to allow these companies, which seem to have considerable financial resources, to sidestep legal burdens that would require them to move toward renewable energy sources in a timely manner. According to analysis from New Energy Economy and others, this single private gas plant would emit roughly 10 million tons of CO2 per year, about three times the emissions of the entire Southern New Mexico and West Texas power grid, and more than the cities of Las Cruces, Santa Fe, and Albuquerque combined. That grid serves half a million homes and businesses; this plant would serve a couple of out-of-state corporations. It would seem reasonable that the applicants explain why they cannot adhere to a more traditional or cleaner power generation solution that would place less of an environmental burden on our community. I do not think it is unreasonable to slow this process down and make sure due diligence is done to ensure that this project takes into consideration the well-being and health of the residents in our area. It should be possible for the applicants to meet their goals without adversely harming our community. As residents of New Mexico, we are depending on the NMED to stand up for our rights and protect us from unnecessary harm. Sincerely, Earl Cason Dona Ana County

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Comment From: Nathalie Nichols

7/06/26 @ 10:07 PM

Water and the health of our communities are more important than data centers. If you will not live long enough to feel the reprocutions of your actions you should not get a say in our future. OUR PLANET AND PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE MORE VALUABLE THAN AN...↓

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Comment From: Melissa Harrison

7/06/26 @ 10:07 PM

I am deeply opposed to this project, as I am opposed to any construction that allows for pilfering of a dwindling resource such as water from New Mexico's already drought stricken landscape. The power draw, immense heat creation, and the noise create...↓

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Comment From: Kadyn Livingston

7/06/26 @ 10:06 PM

Data centers are harmful and useless blights on our land, energy grid, environment, and economy. They produce very little jobs long term, use up extremely large amounts of water (a precious resource, especially in New Mexico) and scar our land with Z...↓

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Comment From: River Nunez

7/06/26 @ 10:06 PM

"The proposition of thousands of jobs being provided with Project Jupiter and recycled water for AI search engines is built on a false promise to have New Mexicans side with the continuation of this data center. Many New Mexicans truly disapprove of ...↓

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Comment From: Javier Lira

7/06/26 @ 10:05 PM

We should do more about. This could potentially hurt that. This could also hurt other people. I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. Thank you.

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Comment From: Maggie M

7/06/26 @ 10:05 PM

The tactics being used to manufacture and fabricate support for this project are incredibly concerning. I am raising my children here in NM and there is no world in which a data center is making a better world for them. Please deny the air permit.

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Comment From: Sarah Raupagh

7/06/26 @ 10:05 PM

I oppose Yucca Growth Infrastructure's permit application request and believe it should be denied.

New Mexico's land, water (and supply), air and health risk significant impact with this project. Or anything correlated with Project Jupiter.

Bloom...↓

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Comment From: Samantha Hughes-Hobbs

7/06/26 @ 10:05 PM

FUCK PROJECT JUPITER. FUCK THEIR CAPITALIST SLIMEBALL ASTROTURFED PR CAMPAIGN. FUCK THEIR ENABLERS. FUCK THE SNAKES IN GOVERNMENT WHO ARE COMPLICIT. FUCK LARRY ELLISON. FUCK SAM ALTMAN. FUCK CAPITALISM. FUCK INDENTURED SERVITUDE. FUCK IMPERIAL COLONI...↓

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Comment From: Siobhan Kilbride

7/06/26 @ 10:04 PM

As the owner of a small healthcare recruiting business, I am quite concerned about the impact of the microgrid on efforts to recruit professionals to move to New Mexico. No one wants to live near one of these facilities and it will absolutely deter p...↓

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Comment From: Perse Alvarado

7/06/26 @ 10:04 PM

I am a resident of Albuquerque and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe a...↓nd secure future. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of.

My family's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members.

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Comment From: anonymous anonymous

7/06/26 @ 10:04 PM

If the New Mexico Environment Department's (NMED) mission is "to protect and restore the environment and to foster a healthy and prosperous NM for present and future generations" then the air quality permit application should be denied given Bloom En...↓

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Comment From: Francis M

7/06/26 @ 10:02 PM

Humans and Clean Air, Make a Great Pair! <3
"The public should be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.
The air quality permit application should be denied outright gi...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/06/26 @ 10:01 PM

I am a resident of Albuquerque and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe a...↓nd secure future. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. Our metro area is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and we have received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. We are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities. The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Last summer, my 7 year old suffered a grand mal seizure while on the playground at school because the extreme heat led to electrolyte imbalances. My brother works outside everyday without shade or rest breaks and has nowhere to keep his insulin cool. I can barely pay my electricity bills in the summer as it is. We cannot afford more intense heat. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How am I supposed to send my kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications before they have had a chance to grow up. Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of. My family's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members.

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Comment From: Gretchen Rehfeld

7/06/26 @ 10:00 PM

I do not support this project nor any like it in New Mexico. It feels like a gross, irresponsible management of our resources to permit anything towards a project like this one.

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Comment From: Rachael S

7/06/26 @ 9:57 PM

As a resident of New Mexico, I oppose this project.

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Comment From: Donald Blaisdell

7/06/26 @ 9:57 PM

Water hog data centers in the desert is the stupidest idea yet. Keep these lame ass corporations out of New Mexico.

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Comment From: Amelia Johnson

7/06/26 @ 9:56 PM

In a state already plagued by drought and an environment showing the detrimental effects of warming, building a data center that will use our water and pollute our air puts all of our communities at risk. The profits of this project will not stay in ...↓

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Comment From: THARA LECHUGA

7/06/26 @ 9:56 PM

I was approached by an employee or representative of ORACLE regarding support for Project Jupiter in Dona Ana County. I specifically told the ORACLE employee that I do NOT support Project Jupiter and I listed various reasons - #1 being we live in a ...↓

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Comment From: Paul Martinez

7/06/26 @ 9:54 PM

"Dear NMED staff,

My name is Paul Martinez. I live in Albuquerque NM, and I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment to urge the New Mexico Environment Department...↓

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Comment From: Alexander McDonough

7/06/26 @ 9:53 PM

No to project Jupiter! No massive polluting AI data centers!

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Comment From: Sophia Gentry

7/06/26 @ 9:52 PM

"I urge the NMED to deny Air Quality Construction Permit Application 10883 for the Yucca Growth Infrastructure (YGI) Microgrid in southern Doña Ana County. Granting a permit to emit over 10 million metric tons of CO2 annually violates NMED's mission ...↓

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Comment From: Eli Becker

7/06/26 @ 9:52 PM

I strongly oppose the construction of project Jupiter that would come at the detriment of our gorgeous New Mexican nature. Water is too precious to use for cooling GPUs. The only people who benefit from this project are the few billionaires who would...↓

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Comment From: Yetzali Reyna

7/06/26 @ 9:52 PM

I urge the NMED to deny Air Quality Construction Permit Application 10883 for the Yucca Growth Infrastructure (YGI) Microgrid in southern Doña Ana County. Granting a permit to emit over 10 million metric tons of CO2 annually violates NMED's mission t...↓o protect public health and prevent air quality deterioration, disproportionately harming BIPOC and low-income communities.

The application relies on an unproven, unregulatable, and inadequately tested design:

* Unprecedented, Unproven Scale: YGI proposes using 2,275 Bloom Energy Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC). Though several projects have been announced with much fanfare, the largest operating Bloom installation is a 40 MW facility - 60 times smaller than what is proposed here. Scaling this technology to a mega-utility application remains entirely unproven.

* Suspect Estimates & Inadequate Testing: The emissions data provided is based on testing of a single, 65 kW unit four times for four hours. Extrapolating data from a unit 37,876 times smaller than the proposed plant capacity - and adjusting it with an arbitrary 15% safety margin - fails to provide credible empirical evidence. The emissions data provided by the company cannot be trusted.

* Enforcement Impossibility: The design routes 2,275 individual cells through separate stacks with no add-on pollution control mechanisms or integrated continuous monitoring for particulate matter, VOCs, or shifting CO2 intensity. NMED cannot practically enforce compliance under 20.2.72.210 NMAC across thousands of individual, degrading units.

* Severe Public Health & Environmental Impacts: The microgrid will emit 161.2 tons/year of CO and 124 tons/year of VOCs near existing EPA non-attainment zones. It will generate a thermal plume and a "heat island" effect, raising downwind temperatures by up to 3.6°F in a sweltering desert climate, threatening vulnerable populations.

Furthermore, concentrating 10M metric tons of climate-warming CO2 into 275 acres - exceeding the combined emissions of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, and Las Cruces - creates localized health risks. Emerging 2025–2026 research links elevated CO2 levels to permanent changes in human blood chemistry, oxidative stress, and cognitive decline. Because CO2 sensitivity exists on a normal spectrum, even minor baseline increases can induce anxiety and panic attacks in sensitive individuals.

Viable alternatives exist. The June 2025 Lazard Levelized Cost of Energy Report confirms that renewables are the lowest-cost resources to deploy and tech leaders are already powering massive data centers using firm solar-wind-battery configurations.

YGI must not be allowed to greenwash a fossil-fueled plant that erases New Mexico's climate progress. NMED must reject this permit, or at the very least schedule a formal public hearing to investigate these severe community impacts.

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Comment From: Lluvia Rey

7/06/26 @ 9:51 PM

"I am a resident of Las Cruces and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe a...↓

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Comment From: Gabi marie

7/06/26 @ 9:51 PM

I OPPOSE PROJECT JUPITER. WE CAN'T DRINK DATA. FIND ANOTHER WAY TO BRING JOBS INSTEAD OF OPPRESSING MY COMMUNITY

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Comment From: Marcela Mendoza

7/06/26 @ 9:50 PM

I strongly oppose this permit.

The health and safety of New Mexican's should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations.
The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public
hearing in-pe...↓

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Comment From: Joseph Rumbaugh

7/06/26 @ 9:50 PM

I strongly oppose the construction of data centers in New Mexico. We are a state with very little water and large amounts of well-preserved desert and mountain land. For both the preservation of water and wildlife, I strongly oppose the construction ...↓

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Comment From: Esmeralda Aguilar

7/06/26 @ 9:50 PM

There are no net positives that would happen if the data center were allowed to be built.In a time where we are draining reserves in the southwest to make sure that people have enough water to survive, I cannot think of a worse use of our limited res...↓

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Comment From: Armando Marrufo

7/06/26 @ 9:50 PM

"Emissions from natural gas generation can lead to severe environmental and public health concerns. Nitrogen oxides react with other substances to create ground-level ozone, which exacerbates asthma and damages lung tissue. Localized analyses frequen...↓

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Comment From: DeAnna Sutherland

7/06/26 @ 9:50 PM

I am strongly opposed. The health of our environment and people must be prioritized over profit.

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Comment From: Isabelle Vigil

7/06/26 @ 9:49 PM

I strongly oppose Project Jupiter due to its environmental impacts on the state and world. Do not displace millions of New Mexicans by draining the state of water it already desperately needs.

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Comment From: Ray Crowder

7/06/26 @ 9:49 PM

Please oppose project jupiter, we all have a right to clean air and corporations do not have a right to our land!

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Comment From: Nathan Marquard

7/06/26 @ 9:49 PM

I am greatly concerned regarding the projected amount of emissions this project will generate, specifically VOCs. The NMED states in the permit application that VOCs will not be monitored, even though Yucca claims a staggering 124 tons/year will be e...↓

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Comment From: Jordan Butler

7/06/26 @ 9:48 PM

No. Get out of NM. Our water tables and ecology and our beautiful Rio Grande already hang in a delicate balance. We don't want anything to do with project Jupiter, especially considering your canvassars have added peoples' names in favor of it to the...↓

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Comment From: Abby Anon

7/06/26 @ 9:48 PM

"I am a behavioral health clinician in Dona Ana County and among the tens of thousands of concerned voices submitting comments on this platform to urge NMED to oppose the YGI Microgrid permit request. Considering how the climate of this designated no...↓

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Comment From: Maria Montoya

7/06/26 @ 9:47 PM

As an OBGYN, the data is clear, projects like this will worsen health outcomes for the surrounding community. The increased heat and air pollution is linked to preterm birth, infertility, preeclampsia and stillbirth.
Our community should not sustain...↓

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Comment From: Amy Greene

7/06/26 @ 9:47 PM

I oppose this development.

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Comment From: Ali Rodriguez

7/06/26 @ 9:47 PM

"Dear NMED staff,
My name is Ali Rodriguez. I live in Albuquerque , and I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment to urge the New Mexico Environment Department ...↓

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Comment From: Anon Anon

7/06/26 @ 9:46 PM

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Comment From: Sol Johnson

7/06/26 @ 9:46 PM

I oppose. AI data centers are killing the earth and I do NOT welcome any in New Mexico. Not to mention, we live in a desert where we already deal with water shortages. I want clean, affordable water for our people, not more contamination.

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Comment From: Zoen Zoen

7/06/26 @ 9:46 PM

DO NOT put a disgusting data center on our land. It is going to kill our state. PLEASE reject Project Jupiter. We do not want our land destroyed!

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Comment From: Livia Depoy

7/06/26 @ 9:46 PM

"I live in Southern Doña Ana County and under no circumstances do I want experimental technology deployed at an unprecedented scale in my backyard. Yucca Growth Infrastructure's gas-powered fuel cell plant is 1,000 times larger than Bloom Energy's bi...↓ggest existing fuel cell plant. In fact, worldwide, Bloom Energy has developed 1.4 GW of fuel cell technology across more than a thousand locations, yet Yucca Growth Infrastructure is asking for nearly double that (2.46 GW of fuel cells) at a singular location. The largest fuel cell plant in the entire world is more than 30 times smaller than the fuel cell plant under consideration in Santa Teresa. There is absolutely no way to know, with certainty, what the actual pollution levels will be given the tremendous size differential, and thus gap in data, between operational fuel cell plants and this theoretical plant proposed by Yucca Growth Infrastructure. Betting the livability of our county on this unpredictable and unproven plan would be a total capitulation and betrayal of your so-called values: "protects the public health of New Mexicans...by preventing the deterioration of air quality;" "protect and restore the environment...foster a healthy NM for present and future generations"

Though approximations of annual air pollution were provided, the testing used an extremely weak methodology leaving us, ultimately, with pseudoscientific guesses that have large margins of error. Estimated pollution levels for this gas-powered fuel cell plant are based on only three 4-hour pollution tests from a very small unit (only 65 kW). This is a far cry from thousands of sweltering fuel cells operating 24/7 at maximum output in close proximity, all in the scorching heat of our open desert. The lack of rigorous testing at even this small of a scale is lazy and very concerning, especially given that the gas power plant Yucca Growth Infrastructure wants to build is 37,000 times bigger than this unit.

A 15% "safety margin" was added to the numbers provided by the applicant. Safety margins are not usually added if a company is confident in the accuracy of their pollution estimates. Even small variations from this superficial test will result in massively different levels of pollution and given that the plant will be 37,000 bigger than the testing unit, a 15% safety margin is completely insufficient–it could work as a margin for a single unit, but not the entire plant. If a unit has a 0.01% chance of failing (sounds promising right?), the odds of 37,000 of those units working perfectly at the same time is 2.47% (pathetically low feasibility). That means there is a 97.53% chance that the plant will experience at least one failure. What will the exact level of redundancy be? Will more fuel cells be rubberstamped or pollution levels overlooked in five years or less due to age-related inefficiencies?

What about cases of catastrophic failure? Are we approving those deadly incidents of pollution in advance without any real data informing us of the risks at this scale? Highly flammable hydrogen under high pressure only needs a microscopic crack to leak out, ignite, explode, and level entire neighborhoods and schools while sending shockwaves into nearby counties. Assuming this risk, an act of gross negligence, at a scale that has never even remotely been demonstrated in practice would be unbelievably careless. These permits must be denied outright. If further deliberation is desired, a public hearing in Santa Teresa is non-negotiable."

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Comment From: Aryn Hewitt

7/06/26 @ 9:43 PM

I oppose

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Comment From: Jadyn Lauzon

7/06/26 @ 9:43 PM

Additional comment:
"undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can I be sure that these systemic oversight failures w...↓

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Comment From: Jadyn Lauzon

7/06/26 @ 9:42 PM

"I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. I live here with many generations of my family and this is our home. I want to continue raising my children here knowing they have a safe and secure future. That future is u...↓

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Comment From: Rosie Amendola

7/06/26 @ 9:42 PM

As a life long resident of NM, Dona Ana County, I have seen this town grow and evolve into what it is now. And as someone who as grown up along the Rio. I and people in the community do not want this data center, or any permits that would allow it to...↓ pollute our home. I have family members who had cancers due to exposure to chemicals from poor structured facilities and spaces where they would otherwise have not gotten cancer from. And especially in Santa Teresa where they are already facing health problems due to negligence of contaminated water, and poor handling of waste. I want the future of NM to know what it's like to see water flow in the Rio Grande, and to have clean water and a flourishing desert environment. Not only will this data center harm our future but destroy it.

New Mexico Environment Department's (NMED) mission is "to protect and restore the environment and to foster a healthy and prosperous NM for present and future generations."

NMED's Air Quality Bureau "protects the public health of New Mexicans and the natural beauty of the state by preventing the deterioration of air quality."

Do your job and protect the environment from harmful data centers. I would not want to live in a community that has no Rio, no clean air or water, and everyone sick with cancer, children born with deformities and weak immune systems. People of Santa Teresa and Dona Ana County deserve better. Especially with already unresolved water contamination and pollution.

We the people of Dona Ana County and Santa Teresa demand that:

Be given an additional 60 days to review and comment on the air quality permit so community members can participate equitably.

The air quality permit application should be denied given Bloom Energy's history of illegal dumping hazardous waste.

If the permit is not denied, a public hearing needs to be held in Santa Teresa, in both English and Spanish, with an option to participate virtually.

Approving this permit would be government-sponsored environmental racism as residents of Doña Ana County are already disproportionately impacted by environmental pollution.

For years, Doña Ana County has been called a 'nonattainment' zone— this means our air quality does not meet federal government rules.

practice what you preach

-Rosie Amendola

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Comment From: James Longmire

7/06/26 @ 9:41 PM

Greenhouse gas emissions from Project Jupiter are estimated to exceed those of Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and Santa Fe combined. Why is this project even considered for approval? We need to be fighting climate change not supercharging it. And for what?...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/06/26 @ 9:40 PM

1st comment:
"I am a resident of Minnesota. I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. Though I do not live in the area, this is an issue that impacts our relatives and contributes to the climate crisis. The future fo...↓r our children and children's children and seven generations ahead - is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endure as a result of the gas plant's air pollution. To add 10 million tons of carbon dioxide pollution and a vague estimate of toxic emissions to our active and long-time nonattainment zone would be nothing short of blatant environmental racism. BIPOC and low income communities often suffer the consequences more frequently from climate change induced disasters. The metro area there is currently 16th worst in the nation for ozone pollution and has received a failing grade on this air quality standard every single year since 2000. People are already breathing some of the most compromised air in the country. It is unacceptable to invite a new source of hyperscale air pollution into our communities.
The carbon dioxide pollution alone will heat our atmosphere at a much faster pace and promote the formation of even more ground-level ozone. Families in the area are suffering from serious health complications like seizures. We cannot afford more intense heat or pollution and resource extraction from AI data centers or fuel cells. The other toxic air pollutants are extremely dangerous–many of them at very low levels. How are people supposed to send their kids to school knowing what they are breathing in? Or elders traveling? Knowing it can cause permanent brain damage or breathing complications.
Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits. There is no sustainable way of extraction."

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"And illegally dumping dangerous and undisclosed chemicals into our public landfills, and we will just have to wait until somebody notices? Our county has and continues to face an illegal dumping epidemic so how can we be sure that these systemic oversight failures we have locally won't continue and expand to include this dangerous and experimental fuel cell operation. A fine for illegal dumping does not undo damage or its spread once our aquifer and soils are contaminated. It also will not re-capture the volatile chemicals that are released into the air when hazardous waste is improperly stored and disposed of. People's health and safety should be worth more than the profits of out-of-state corporations. The only defensible options moving forward are to deny this air permit or you must hold a public hearing in-person in Santa Teresa with a component for virtual participation. Materials and the hearing itself must be translated into Spanish and meet any other accessibility needs requested by community members. Such a sign language interpreters.
I need to add an important story of the town of Picher Oklahoma. Once a booming mining town that was a major export for lead and zinc and helped supply the U.S army in WWII. The area is now a complete ghost town. It was declared a superfund site by the EPA while citizen STILL lived there. Overtime the huge piles of chat left outside the mines blew lead and zinc dust into citizen's homes and contaminated their waters. In the 90s and 2000s, 40% of children tested positive for lead poisoning. The final straw for eviction was the 300 miles of abandoned hollowed out mines that caused great risk of sink holes that could swallow the entire town at any moment. This story while devastating serves as a warning for what happens when we extract and extract with no regard for the consequences on the environment and our people. Don't let New Mexico become the next Picher Oklahoma. AI data centers will only extract the community's water."

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Comment From: Zoe Unruh

7/06/26 @ 9:40 PM

To Whom It May Concern,

My name is Zoe Unruh. I am a nurse and have been working with New Mexican communities for the past 4 years. New Mexicans have lived through generations of environmental harms from Uranium mining to nuclear testing. We do not ...↓

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Comment From: Brian Wortman

7/06/26 @ 9:39 PM

I urge you to deny the permit for Project Jupiter's fossil fuel microgrid.

This project conflicts with our community's health, prosperity, and values. Approving it means accepting continued air pollution that harms residents' health while prioritizi...↓

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Comment From: deshon hardin

7/06/26 @ 9:39 PM

I am against this project because of the negative impact it will have on our local eco system.

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Comment From: Brian Stamper

7/06/26 @ 9:38 PM

To: The New Mexico Environment Department & The Las Cruces City Council

Regarding: Public Opposition to Yucca Growth Infrastructure's Air Quality Permits & Project Jupiter Approval

I am submitting this formal public comment to establish the record ...↓of community opposition regarding the $165 billion Project Jupiter AI data center complex in Santa Teresa. The administrative maneuvers used by the Doña Ana Board of County Commissioners and corporate actors to advance this project represent a structural failure of transparent governance and local democratic representation.

1. Violation of Democratic Process and Lack of TransparencyOur public voices have been systematically bypassed. The Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners went into a closed, executive session during pivotal contract and tax incentive deliberations for this project. This clear disregard for the public has forced the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government (FOG) to file formal transparency lawsuits against the county over Open Meetings Act violations. Turning a promised public town hall meeting into a highly controlled corporate open house is not community representation—it is a closed-door corporate favor.

2. Misrepresented Public SupportThe claims of sweeping local approval for this project are foundationally compromised. Investigations have revealed that project canvassers approached residents in Las Cruces at gas stations and grocery stores, only to later use those names without permission on falsified support letters sent directly to state environment officials. We will not allow our names or our communities to be hijacked to rubber-stamp environmental degradation.

3. Severe Regional Environmental and Public Health ImpactsThe physical threats to our high-desert home are severe. The massive scale of Project Jupiter threatens our regional water table and power grid stability. Despite recent attempts to pivot to a Bloom Energy fuel cell microgrid design, serious questions remain regarding the massive natural gas or carbon-intensive hydrogen footprints required to power this layout. Bypassing independent, neutral environmental impact reviews exposes Doña Ana County residents to hazardous particulate matter emissions and severe long-term degradation of local air quality.

Conclusion

For decades, the authority of the "administrative pen" has been used to ignore ballot outcomes, block community opposition, and keep Southern New Mexico at an environmental disadvantage. I stand with the growing coalition of local residents and state legislators demanding an immediate halt to all zoning and air permit advancements. We demand a full, independent, third-party environmental review before our finite natural resources are permanently signed away.

Respectfully submitted,Brian D. StamperResident of Doña Ana County / Las Cruces

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Comment From: Tania Sanchez

7/06/26 @ 9:38 PM

I am in strong opposition to any data centers in my community. All construction activities should be halted.

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Comment From: William Caudle

7/06/26 @ 9:38 PM

As a resident of New Mexico and someone with a thirty-year-plus tech background, I urge the Department to reject the permit for this data center. Our water, electricity and air will all be impacted, with zero benefit for New Mexico residents.

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Comment From: Molly Biggs

7/06/26 @ 9:38 PM

as a citizen and a physician, I absolutely oppose approval if the the Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC-YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permit Application. This project is unlikely to provide sufficient economic benefit to the state to offset t...↓

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Comment From: Mavi W

7/06/26 @ 9:37 PM

As a New Mexican resident, we barely have enough water as it is. An AI center would completely diminish the little sources of water we can even use in New Mexico. This is a desert, and any jobs that would be brought from this center would be unsustai...↓

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Comment From: Anonymous Anonymous

7/06/26 @ 9:37 PM

Please deny this permit. We do not want it here. Increases in jobs or opportunity simply aren't adequate answers to all of our many, many concerns. We've all said, loud and clear, that we don't want it. Listen to that. Take that seriously.

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Comment From: Quentin Ampersand

7/06/26 @ 9:36 PM

I do not want this project in New Mexico. We need to protect our resources for us and future generations.

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Comment From: Anna Katros

7/06/26 @ 9:36 PM

Project Jupiter is going to do much more harm than good. The facility will produce mass amounts of light, air, and noise pollution and use 1 million gallons of water per day. We cannot afford to be using our natural resources in this way. Elephant Bu...↓

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Comment From: Melanie Boncella

7/06/26 @ 9:35 PM

I am writing to voice my strong opposition to Yucca Growth Infrastructure LLC setting up in New Mexico. New Mexico, as a state, does not have the resources necessary to keep a data center of the proposed size up and running. While I am opposed on env...↓

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Comment From: Armando Marrufo

7/06/26 @ 9:35 PM

Emissions from natural gas generation can lead to severe environmental and public health concerns. Nitrogen oxides react with other substances to create ground-level ozone, which exacerbates asthma and damages lung tissue. Localized analyses frequent...↓

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Comment From: Caroline Liu

7/06/26 @ 9:35 PM

I am a resident of Albuquerque and I am asking that you deny Yucca Growth Infrastructure's air quality permit. That future is under threat with this proposed air quality permit. A change to fuel cells has minimal impacts on the suffering we will endu...↓

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Comment From: Maryellen Ampersand

7/06/26 @ 9:34 PM

I do not think this is a good project for the environment in New Mexico. As a tax payer I do not want my money to subsidize this project. I

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Comment From: Anais Trujillo

7/06/26 @ 9:34 PM

I oppose Project Jupiter

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Comment From: Oliver Scroggins

7/06/26 @ 9:34 PM

"Dear NMED staff,

My name is Oliver Scroggins. I live in Albuquerque, and I am writing because I am concerned about the risks and harms Project Jupiter poses to New Mexicans. I am submitting this comment to urge the New Mexico Environment Departm...↓

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Comment From: Hannah Hurd

7/06/26 @ 9:33 PM

As a resident of New Mexico in both Doña Ana and Sandoval counties, I feel disgusted in the lack of care shown by the non-allowance of meaningful public input and time for residents to voice thier concerns of our own government readily accepting the ...↓

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Comment From: Hendrix Chaffee

7/06/26 @ 9:33 PM

NO to project Jupiter. WE need that water they plan on wasting. AI is useless and wasteful and I'm beyond disappointed it's finding its way to my homeland and beyond disappointed in the corrupt people living in the borderland that are letting this ha...↓

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Comment From: Toni Purley

7/06/26 @ 9:32 PM

I'm strongly opposed to this places being built anywhere, but especially our Beautiful State. How can you possibly think this project is going to help our Community. We live in a desert where our already dwindling water resources are at dangerously c...↓

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Comment From: Mayte Lopez

7/06/26 @ 9:32 PM

I am am absolutely against this effort. How dare this company put forth this request, how disingenuous and flippant about the lives of every day New Mexicans. SHAME ON THEM. SHAME ON EVERYONE WHO IS MOVING PROJECT JUPITER FORWARD!!!!! You sell out th...↓

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Comment From: Fidel Briones

7/06/26 @ 9:32 PM

"My wife and I are completely opposed to Project Jupiter. This gargantuan project will emit tremendous amounts of dangerous air pollution in our area which already suffers from bad air quality many days of the year.
This project was rushed throug...↓

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Comment From: Jade Trinity

7/06/26 @ 9:32 PM

I don't support generative AI or data centers because of the wear and tear they cause on the environment. I oppose project Jupiter

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Comment From: James Takamatsu

7/06/26 @ 9:31 PM

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Comment From: Emma Jones

7/06/26 @ 9:31 PM

My names Emma Jones, and I oppose project Jupiter and data centers in New Mexico. I'm extremely concerned with the environmental impact as what projects like this are doing to our water.

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Comment From: Carson R

7/06/26 @ 9:30 PM

Data centers are currently one of the greatest threats to our air quality and the tactic used to try to falsify support for this project have been vile. Lying and deceiving people to get signatures shows how unpopular this project is. No one wants da...↓

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Comment From: Sommer Betlej

7/06/26 @ 9:30 PM

Communities across the country that have jumped headlong into permitting facilities like this one have paid the price. Environmental damage, water quality issues, depleted aquifers, and noise and air pollution that harm communities and ecosystems. Un...↓

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Comment From: Armando Marrufo

7/06/26 @ 9:30 PM

"Emissions from natural gas generation can lead to severe
environmental and public health concerns. Nitrogen oxides
react with other substances to create ground-level ozone,
which exacerbates asthma and damages lung tissue.
Localized analyses fre...↓

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Comment From: Andrew Curtice

7/06/26 @ 9:29 PM

This entire process flies in the face of the interest of the people of New Mexico. The managers of this project have been consistently deceitful and have astroturfed a campaign in the interests of the rich and powerful and not the people. This projec...↓

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Comment From: Marisol Cueto-Silva

7/06/26 @ 9:29 PM

"Fuel cells also create hazardous waste and the fuel cell provider for this project has a history of illegally dumping this waste and hiding it for several years. This company will likely repeat its bad habits, illegally dumping dangerous and undiscl...↓

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Comment From: J Ki

7/06/26 @ 9:28 PM

Data centers have no redeemable quality to add to life anywhere on this planet. They only bring depletion of resources, pollution, excessive noise, water waste, and extreme financial burden to citizens as we have seen in other areas where utility bil...↓

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Comment From: Audrey Carter

7/06/26 @ 9:28 PM

"I lived in Albuquerque New Mexico for college starting in 2023. It was a very special and important place for me to live and explore in as a young adult. If this project continues, young people like me will not be able to live in those conditions. U...↓

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Comment From: Blas Budlong

7/06/26 @ 9:28 PM

I am writing about Project Jupiter. I would like to know exactly what sort of pollution we can expect and to have a chance for the community to decide if it's worth it. I also think there should be clear repercussions if pollution exceeds project jup...↓

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Comment From: Ember Anonymous

7/06/26 @ 9:27 PM

This literally is just an ultra killer of not only our planet and the people around us but life in general. There's literally nothing about this that benefits people and what I mean by people is just genuine ordinary people, the working class of New ...↓

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Comment From: Genevieve Romero-Takamatsu

7/06/26 @ 9:27 PM

Do not let Project Jupiter poison our environment and communities.

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Comment From: Amy England

7/06/26 @ 9:27 PM

It's hard to believe we need to express our objection to something so obviously detrimental to our land, water, air, and energy resources that will affect generations to come, and for no other purpose than to generate corporate profits for an entity ...↓

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Comment From: Carol Anda

7/06/26 @ 9:26 PM

Taking scarce resources such as water to build a project that will hurt the community and the environment is something New Mexicans do not want. Please listen to your community, please think about the consequences this project will have on our resour...↓

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Comment From: Kaitlin Wolff

7/06/26 @ 9:26 PM

Data centers are horrible for the environment and should not be in New Mexico, or anywhere else. They consume too much water and energy, pollute the land and air, and poison humans and animals. Say no to project Jupiter!

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Comment From: Mireya Ramento Ho

7/06/26 @ 9:26 PM

I believe we do not have the resources to support this. I believe our water and air are at risk plus possible health risks for us and our future generations not to mention the environmental disaster this will be. I know the good ole' boys in marketin...↓

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Comment From: Sivan Gordon-Buxbaum

7/06/26 @ 9:25 PM

I am submitting this comment to share my opposition to the Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC-YGI Microgrid Air Quality Construction Permit Application. Please deny this application for the following reasons:

*YGI's application should be denied by NM...↓

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Comment From: Mary Maestas

7/06/26 @ 9:25 PM

Please deny the air quality permits for Yucca Growth Infrastructure, LLC.This project does
nothing to benefit New Mexico and only endangers NM residents and the environment in the long run. Additionally, the state should be considered cumulative impa...↓

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Comment From: Alison Cherpitel

7/06/26 @ 9:23 PM

Please do not approve this permit!

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