Project Jupiter — state environmental records
Every attempt to obtain this collection, and what stopped it. This is the one chart on the page currently backed by real observations — the record of trying, not of records.
What kind of material the agency actually released — documents, correspondence, spreadsheets, images. The shape of a production is itself evidence: a request answered only with policy PDFs looks very different from one answered with the underlying emails.
Native format matters for what can be analysed. Spreadsheets and .msg
files carry structure and metadata; a scanned PDF carries neither and needs OCR before it can be
searched or cross-referenced against the county archive.
Bulk concentrates where the substance usually is. Outsized files are the first things to open, and a production that is entirely small files is often a production of cover letters rather than records.
How much each request actually yielded. Populates as further NMED requests join this collection; with a single request it is a bar, not a comparison.
Everything above is the IPRA release — records the agency hands over in response to a request. Everything below is different: data NMED publishes itself, through the Air Quality Bureau's Air Permit Map. No request, no custodian, no captcha — which is why it is readable while the release is not. Nothing below was produced in response to IPRA-2026-1168, and the two tiers are never merged into a single figure.
Every permitted air facility in Santa Teresa and Sunland Park — the two communities that share an airshed with the Project Jupiter site, and the area EPA designated marginal nonattainment for ozone. This is the pollution load already authorized around the campus, before it adds anything.
Doña Ana County's largest permitted emitters, ranked by total allowed tons per year across all pollutants. Concentration is the finding here: county totals are shaped by a handful of facilities, not spread across the 49.
What the county's permits actually authorize, by pollutant. Nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide dominate — the combustion signature of power generation and gas compression rather than of industrial process work.
Where inside the county that authorized load actually sits.
The ten counties with the most permitted tonnage in New Mexico. The oil-and-gas counties operate at a scale that puts the rest of the state — Doña Ana included — in a different bracket entirely, which is worth holding in mind before reading any county figure above as large or small on its own.