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Published May 14, 2017 at 580 × 430 in 040117-051417

The Rio Grande at Alameda Bridge, April 1, 2017 – May 14, 2017

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As the last coal burned, San Juan Generating Station employees expressed a mixture of emotions
By Hannah Grover | 3 hours ago
In the more than four decades he worked at the San Juan Generating Station, Allen Palmer saw units three and four come online.
Looking back at the San Juan Generating Station and those who fought against it
By Hannah Grover | September 28, 2022
It was July 1, 1969.
Efforts are underway to craft legislation for regional water utility authorities
By Hannah Grover | September 28, 2022
With only a few months left before the beginning of the legislative session, efforts are picking up to draft legislation. Rep. Susan Herrera, D-Embudo, and Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, hosted a meeting on Tuesday to discuss legislation that would enable the creation of regional water utility authorities similar to the ones that serve communities in the Lower Rio Grande area and Albuquerque and Bernalillo County.

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Amid New Mexico’s history of legacy pollution, Holtec tells lawmakers that nuclear storage proposal is safe and secure
By Hannah Grover | September 2, 2022
Officials with the company that wishes to temporarily store spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico are working to assure lawmakers that it would be both safe and secure. Holtec International Project Director Ed Mayer presented the plans for the nuclear fuel storage to the Science, Technology and Telecommunications Committee on Thursday during its meeting in Hobbs.
Weather station network intended to provide some security for farmers, ranchers
By Hannah Grover | May 2, 2022
Government programs provide insurance for ranchers if they lose their forage crops due to lack of rain, but the scarcity of rain gauges in New Mexico has limited the usefulness of this insurance, according to legislators who secured funding to build a network of weather stations throughout the state.

About Laura Paskus

Laura Paskus has been writing about New Mexico’s natural resources and communities since 2002, as an assistant editor of High Country News, a radio producer at KUNM-FM, managing editor of Tribal College Journal and a freelancer for a variety of publications including the Santa Fe Reporter, New Mexico In Depth and Indian Country Today. Her work has also appeared in Al Jazeera America, Ms. Magazine, National Geographic Online, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, The Progressive, Columbia Journalism Review, The Mountain Gazette, Audubon and Orion. She's a correspondent for New Mexico In Focus and a graduate student in the University of New Mexico’s Geography and Environmental Studies Department.

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