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As state lawmakers face potentially billions of dollars in new capital outlay requests from local governments — while $5 billion they allocated in previous years remains unspent — construction …

Energy-efficient housing benefits not only the individual homeowner but the whole world.

Some lawmakers suggest the state should halt approval of new funds for local governments with outstanding projects.

The funds would help create a database of waterways at risk from pollution, development and other human-made hazards.

By Scott Wyland, The Santa Fe New Mexican Regulators are requesting $600,000 this legislative session to aid the state in establishing the authority to safeguard New Mexico's waterways after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling disqualified most of them from federal protection. The need for full state autonomy in managing water resources, which are declining as

Most of New Mexicos wetlands will be unprotected from homebuilders, mining interests, fossil fuel operators, agriculture and others that could displace them.

Environmentalist are angry but the State Home Building Association is pleased with the SCOTUS ruling.

A proposal at the Roundhouse, Senate Bill 77, would require every new home built in New Mexico to be equipped to handle an electric vehicle charger.

In Ruidoso and Las Vegas, dazed people who lost everything can get a cup of coffee and canned goods as they try to figure out their next move. They have a name: Climate change refugees.