Overview

• Environment minister Alicia Bárcena acknowledged impacts to eight cenotes and caverns in Tramo 5 and said cleanup crews are removing concrete from affected sites.
• An interagency group involving Semarnat, Profepa and the Tren Maya operator meets weekly to review missing permits, track compliance and drive corrective actions.
• Semarnat reports 45% progress on change‑of‑land‑use regularization and is quantifying required reforestation to compensate for project impacts, targeting 95% compliance with mitigation conditions.
• Separately, the ministry says it has reviewed about 90% of roughly 538,000 historical water concessions as it backs reforms to the water law to address unequal access to clean water.
• Despite budget constraints, Semarnat highlights enforcement against illegal logging—120 sawmills and 400 properties closed, 22,000 m3 of timber seized, 21 suspects referred—and advances zero‑waste and circular‑economy initiatives.