For most New Mexico businesses, the arrival of COVID-19 wreaked havoc, caused shutdowns or threatened doom. But for one enterprise — potentially one of the world’s largest nuclear waste sites — the pandemic offered an unusual opportunity. A long-planned nuclear waste storage facility in the southeastern New Mexico desert was rushed through the approval process […]
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Biden Taps Another New Mexico Woman for Top Administration Job
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A top human resources employee for New Mexico’s governor has stepped down after more than two years in the position to take a new role with President Joe Biden’s administration. Pam Coleman, who was appointed to serve as director of the state personnel office in January 2019 under Gov. Michelle […]
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Climate Change Yo-Yo
President Biden executive order to halt new fracking permits didn’t exactly cut oil and gas off at its knees, but it did deal them a blow that the industry knew was coming.
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Acoma Pueblo Sues Indian Health Services
It’s a tiny hospital in the middle of what seems like nowhere, but to the tribal communities it served, it was a lifeline. A lifeline that was cut short with no notice by Indian Health Services, the federal agency who oversees the hospital. The Acoma-Cañoncito-Laguna (ACL) Hospital was given a 30-day notice of closure in […]
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Environmental Rules Gone Wild
It looks like environmental bills gone wild on the oil and natural gas industry. Largely unregulated, or self-regulated for close to 100 years, perhaps the industry is finally being brought to task.
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Oil Companies Lock in Drilling Permits
In the closing months of the Trump administration, energy companies stockpiled enough drilling permits for western public lands to keep pumping oil for years and undercut President-elect Joe Biden’s plans to curb new drilling because of climate change.
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“Not a Rally… It’s a Mob”: New Mexicans in Congress Give Live Updates Via Twitter
Following a raucous rally led by President Trump himself, hundreds of pro-Trump protestors stormed the US Capitol Building, pushing past US Capitol Police prompting a lockdown of a joint session of Congress underway and the evacuation of Vice President Pence and Congressional leadership. As extremists tried to enter the chamber, police were captured in photos […]
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Congressional Paper Pushing, or Not.
New Mexico’s congressional delegation arrives in Washington, D.C., as efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election reached a fever pitch. During a procedure that is meant to be an exercise in congressional paperwork, members of New Mexico’s delegation have a decision to make: Vote to affirm or reject the result of the […]
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VIDEO: Park Ranger Tases Native Man Visiting Sacred Site at Petroglyph National Monument
A park ranger Tased a Native man multiple times while investigating him for walking off a designated path in a national monument.