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MEXICO/US BORDER by Mary Kelly |
1. Borderlines
On-line version of the Interhemispheric Resource Center's monthly newsletter, with a wealth of information and perspectives on current border environmental issues. Real substance on the Web.
2. EPA US/Mexico Border Activities
At least the much ballyhooed Border XXI program has produced a valuable Website, with a compendium of the border-related programs of the US Environmental Protection Agency, other US federal agencies, and Mexico's federal environmental agency SEMARNAP. Good links to actual data.
3. New Mexico State University
Start at the NMSU home page and search their pages for "border." You will be rewarded with many useful links, as well as information on and (in some cases) direct access to publications on border issues, including the environment. Much better than most university sites.
4. Commission on Environmental Cooperation
This is the site for the trinational environmental commission created by the NAFTA side agreement. We can all differ about NAFTA, but opinion should be more harmonious regarding the value of this page -- it's not focused on the border, but it provides access to information about Mexican environmental laws and good links to a host of other relevant sites in the US and Mexico. Start here if you want to know about environmental policy in Mexico (or the US for that matter).
5. Border Environmental Archives
A slow and funky host, but if you make it to the site you can find a variety of articles, contacts and (mostly) useful notes. The page is developed and maintained by free-lance journalist Ron Mader.
Also see...some articles on border issues of widespread interest in an easy-on-the-eyes format; one of the Web's ugliest set of graphics, but very good data on US/Mexico trade; pure text, but some useful information from a small non-profit active on border environmental issues; and this new site, not yet fully developed, but the potential is there.
Mary Kelly is Executive Director of the Texas Center for Policy Studies.