Here is a sampling of the articles posted on SubStack For more Iinformation check out the several articles written.
Series Note:
This series is not an argument for a predetermined outcome, but a record of how decisions were made, what was disclosed, and what communities were denied the chance to evaluate.
Public engagement means timely, complete disclosure of material facts, the ability to ask questions before commitments are made, and participation that is not conditioned on silence, speed, or physical ability. Where interpretation appears, it is grounded in documents, transcripts, and actions already on the public record.
This record is written for residents, future residents, workers, tribal communities, regulators, and anyone asked to accept risk without full information. Each part stands on its own, but together they trace a single throughline: how risk is transferred quietly — and how resistance begins with refusing to look away.
What is documented here is not only a failure to meet formal economic development standards, but a deeper misalignment between how decisions are made and the ecosystems and communities expected to absorb their consequences.
Under both the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and New Mexico State Land Office standards, public engagement is not satisfied by information sessions held after decisions are effectively made. Best practice requires early disclosure, meaningful opportunity for input, and engagement that occurs before public resources are committed and impacts locked in. Meetings that limit questions, narrow scope, or withhold material facts do not meet this standard. They create the appearance of participation without its substance.
Uprising — Part IV: After the Silence This piece is about who bears risk when institutions refuse to answer — and why alignment matters when enforcement fails and legitimacy still shields harm. A record written before denial becomes impossible. elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/uprising-p…
Uprising — Part III: Defiance After disclosure and before harm, there is a choice. This part documents what happens when that choice is made against communities — and how defiance begins. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci…
Uprising — Part II The Workaround State Risk doesn’t appear all at once. It accumulates. traces how environmental, health, and governance risks were narrowed, fragmented, and treated as technical This is where misalignment starts to become visible.
Author’s Note
This series is the result of years of lived experience, public records work, environmental advocacy, and the courage of ordinary residents who refused to stay silent. What you will read here is not just a policy failure or a local scandal — it is the story of a people pushing back against centuries of exploitation, secrecy, and political impunity.
I write this not as an academic observer, but as someone who has been threatened, dismissed, excluded, and targeted for raising concerns about public safety and environmental law. Yet tonight, watching a young man speak truth to power in front of television cameras at a community meeting, I was reminded that this fight has never belonged to one person. It belongs to the community. It belongs to the future.
This is our story. This is our resistance. This is our uprising.
Exposing power. Defending land. Protecting the Future
@ecimino.bsky.social
Uprising — Part I Subjugation- How Five Centuries of Power, Land and Militarization Shaped New Mexico This is where the record begins. What was disclosed. What was deferred. What communities were denied the chance to evaluate Part I is about process, timing, and the moment when silence first became policy.
https://elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/the-uprising-new-mexicos-long-fight?r=281p2
When guardrails disappear, silence becomes compliance. This is a frontline account of climate, militarization, and why creating a public record is an act of resistance. No Guardrails Left.
“Every year in late June, long before the Fourth of July, fireworks start exploding across our neighborhoods. People get angry. Dogs and cats shake and hide under beds. Veterans brace for PTSD triggers. Windows rattle. Babies wake screaming. Everyone feels the tension building until the holiday passes.
Now imagine that same destabilizing shock — not for two weeks a year, but permanently, every week, or even every day, depending on testing schedules….These events routinely produce short explosive bursts of 120–135 dB, the same range as sonic booms or the shockwave from a small detonation. These are not steady hums. They are impulsive blast events, which the human body — and wildlife — react to instantly, even when the exposure lasts only fractions of a second.”