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New Mexico regulators push ahead as virus disaster declared

ALBUQUERQUE – While federal environmental regulators have waived enforcement on a range of legally mandated public health and environmental protections, New Mexico is marching ahead. ...

DATE: Apr 6, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Endangered gray wolf population on the rise in Southwest

Count of 163 is a 25% jump over previous year

DATE: Mar 22, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

U.S. officials cite ‘balance’ as goal for Chaco oil plan

ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. land managers Friday made public a list of possible alternatives for managing development in one of the nation’s oldest oil and gas basins, but environmentalists and other...

DATE: Feb 28, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. forest chief: ‘Tough choices’ to fund wildfire prevention

ALBUQUERQUE – The U.S. Forest Service has been working with states and other partners to treat more acres every year in hopes of reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfire, but Forest Chie...

DATE: Feb 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Groups want cows corralled to protect jumping mouse habitat

ALBUQUERQUE – Environmentalists have accused U.S. land managers of failing to keep livestock and wild horses out of streams and other wetlands in Arizona’s White Mountains, resulting in dama...

DATE: Feb 21, 2020 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Governor: New Mexico needs realistic, sustainable water plan

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has long talked about the importance of water to the arid state, even campaigning on the idea of creating a 50-year plan to guide managem...

DATE: Jan 27, 2020 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

New Mexico officials call U.S. water rollbacks ‘disastrous’

ALBUQUERQUE – New Mexico officials on Thursday said the Trump administration’s move to end federal protections for many of the nation’s streams, arroyos and wetlands will be “disastrous” for...

DATE: Jan 23, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

U.S. plutonium production plan likely to spur legal challenge

ALBUQUERQUE – The agency that oversees the United States’ nuclear arsenal says it doesn’t need to do any broad environmental reviews of a proposal that calls for ramping up production of plu...

DATE: Jan 9, 2020 | CATEGORY: Regional News

New Mexico Democratic agenda, oil boom make 2019 headlines

ALBUQUERQUE – Democratic election victories set New Mexico on a progressive political path in 2019 that included a surge in government spending on education and infrastructure, new restricti...

DATE: Dec 26, 2019 | CATEGORY: New Mexico

More endangered minnows released in Rio Grande

ALBUQUERQUE – About 15,000 Rio Grande silvery minnows are now swimming in the river as part of a decades-long effort to keep the tiny fish from disappearing. Buckets containing th...

DATE: Dec 20, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Documents sought in case of Saudi student facing gun charge

ALBUQUERQUE – A Saudi Arabian student arrested on a federal firearms charge the day before he was scheduled to graduate from the University of New Mexico remained in custody Monday while his...

DATE: Dec 17, 2019 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Research team in New Mexico to take fresh look at delicate artifacts

ALBUQUERQUE – Sandals and baskets that have withstood the ravages of time will be among the perishable artifacts analyzed by a team of scientists looking to learn more about a corner of the ...

DATE: Dec 14, 2019 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life