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The U.S. Department of the Interior announced approximately $51 million in funding for water projects on Tuesday. That includes more than $5 million for projects in New Mexico.“Adequate, resilient and safe water supplies are fundamental to the health, economy and security of every community in our nation,” Secretary Deb Haaland said in a press release. […]

A transmission project that would move electricity from Hidalgo County to Arizona was recently selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Transmission Facilitation Program. The Southline Transmission Project was one of three that entered into contract negotiations with the DOE in late October. This program includes the DOE agreeing to purchase a percentage of the […]

The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board are hearing arguments for and against Advanced Clean Cars and Trucks standards this week. These standards are based on California regulations and New Mexico is limited by federal law on which areas of California’s regulations it can change if it chooses […]

Groundwater levels in Albuquerque are rising at the same time as water sources across much of the West are depleting. New research from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) indicates water levels in the aquifer beneath Albuquerque have reached the highest levels recorded since the USGS began mapping groundwater in the area in 2002. The trend […]

BOARDMAN — The Port of Morrow reached a deal to provide almost $2 million to support safe drinking water efforts in the Boardman area and will pay a fine of

Could inexpensive pea gravel from a local landscaping company play a role in decarbonizing heat and electricity? That is a question that Sandia National Laboratories and its partner CSolPower want to answer. The researchers believe that rocks, like pea gravel, could be used to store energy generated by solar panels. The New Mexico-based CSolPower states […]

The New Mexico Game Commission unanimously approved new limits on how many bears and cougars can be killed by hunters during a meeting Friday in Farmington. During the public comment period leading up to the vote, the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish received more than 2,800 comments regarding bear and cougar hunting. Of […]

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland visited a key eastern New Mexico infrastructure project on Monday that will bring water from Ute Lake to communities like Clovis and Portales, which are facing challenges due to declining levels in the Ogallala Aquifer. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Camille Calimlim Touton joined Haaland in Clovis, where they announced a […]

As wildfires become an increasing threat to communities across the western United States, members of the U.S. Congress are seeking solutions that will help protect against the devastating impacts.  Representatives from federal agencies spoke to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources’ Public Lands, Forests and Mining Subcommittee about more than half a dozen […]

Despite annual setbacks in the Legislature and losing out on federal funding, the push for hydrogen energy in New Mexico continues.  Now, an Australia-based company focused on green hydrogen research and development is eyeing Albuquerque as the location of its first facility in the United States. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and Star Scientific Ltd. signed […]