Environmental Affairs
What we do:
The Environmental Health (EH) Division of EHS assists the University with the classic environmental health issues related to air, water, and land/real estate conditions, working closely with EHS Chemical Hygiene and Recycling divisions.
We assist various University organizations with their air emissions, water quality, and land/real estate environmental health issues by:
- Promoting measures and practices to reduce the University’s impacts on air, water, and land/real estate.
- Coordinating compliance with permit and regulatory requirements;
- Preparing associated reports and related communications;
- Keeping required records; and,
- Working with regulatory agencies and other organizations on University environmental health matters.
Programs:
The Environmental Health division continues to assist with permitting, investigation, inspections, monitoring, record-keeping, and reporting on various environmental health-related issues on behalf of the University including:
- Air Emissions/Ambient Air Quality
- Drinking-Water Quality
- Environmental Incidents/Duty Officer Reports
- Underground and Aboveground Storage Tanks
- Ground Water
- Stormwater
- Land/Real Estate Environmental
- Due Diligence Exposure Assessment of Physical and Chemical Health Hazards
- Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) Plans
Drinking-Water
Quality + Information
Storm Water
Quality + Information
Ground Water
Quality + Information
Air Emissions + Ambient Air
Quality + Information
Environmental Affairs Team
Casey Hall
Director
Email: cbhall4@unm.edu
Melissa Terry
Chemical Hygiene Officer
Email: melterry@unm.edu
Tommy Evans
Environmental Health and Safety Tech III
Email: tevans5@unm.edu
Scheryl Chinn
Safety Specialist
Email: schinn@unm.edu
UNM Environmental Resources:
- UNM Office of Sustainability
- FM Engineering & Energy Services
- FM Recycling
- Ford Utilities
- Planning, Design & Construction
- Center for Emerging Energy Technologies
- Center for Water and the Environment
- Environmental Engineering Lab
- Geography and Environmental Sciences
- Indigenous Design Planning Institute
- Sevilleta Long Term Ecological Research Program
- Sustainability Studies Program