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   By Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press One of New Mexico's largest vaccination clinics is hitting the pause button and will temporarily stop giving vaccines after administering shots for more than a week. University of New Mexico Health Sciences officials say they want to ensure they have enough doses to give booster shots to people who have received their first shots. The clinic at the university's arena, also known as The Pit, is expected to be closed through Saturday. The clinic was administering around 1,600 doses per day, with a goal of eventually hitting 3,000 shots daily. An off...

Legislator Tests Positive For Coronavirus Within Capitol - Associated Press, Santa Fe New Mexican, KUNM News The Democratic speaker of the state House is restricting access by lawmakers to the House floor and closing off conference rooms after the disclosure that a Republican legislator tested positive for COVID-19, along with several earlier positive tests among legislative staff. Speaker Brian Egolf of Santa Fe said Friday that he will begin restricting in-person access to House floor sessions to himself and one additional person from each political party. That would establish almost enti...

Pixabay The state Senate Conservation Committee passed a community solar bill Thursday after a lengthy debate and multiple amendment proposals. Legislators have introduced various community solar bills over the past years, but the newest version of the bill was drafted by a task force that was created during the last session.  Senator Liz Stefanics, D-Cerrillos, presented SB 84, the Community Solar Act, to the committee. The bill would direct the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) to develop and adopt rules to implement a community solar program, in which communities can subscribe to local s...

New Mexico community solar proposal clears first hurdle By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYANJanuary 28, 2021 GMT FILE - In this April 20, 2011, file photo, are some of the 30,000 solar panels that make up the Public Service Co. of New Mexico's 2-megawatt photovoltaic array in Albuquerque, N.M. A proposal that would allow for community solar programs to be established in New Mexico has cleared its first legislative hurdle despite questions from some lawmakers and concerns among investor-owned utilities. The bill cleared the Senate Conservation Committee on a party-line vote Thursday Jan. 28, 2021. (AP Photo...

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – The Santa Fe County Commission on Tuesday unanimously passed a resolution asking Los Alamos National Laboratory for a Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for its plutonium pit production. The resolution comes as the lab plans to increase its plutonium pit production to 30 pits per year by 2026, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Plutonium pits are the triggering device used in nuclear weapons. The last SWEIS at LANL was performed 13 years ago. ................................................................ In August, the Nation...