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    Published August 10, 2017 at 1250 × 834 in 36132401782_7f5f821d53_o

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    • U.S. Supreme Court says Biden has authority to end anti-immigration policy
      By Susan Dunlap | 15 hours ago

      The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that President Joe Biden has the authority to end the Trump-era immigration policy forbidding asylum seekers from entering the U.S. On its final day of the 2020-2021 term, the Supreme Court agreed with Biden in Biden v. Texas that he has the authority to end former President Donald Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy, also known as the Migration Protection Protocols.

    • New Mexico’s Paid Sick Leave law goes into effect
      By Susan Dunlap | 15 hours ago

      A group of legislators, advocates and individuals celebrated the start of New Mexico’s Paid Sick Leave law, which officially starts Friday.

    • U.S. Supreme Court ruling ‘a huge blow’ to efforts to combat climate change
      By Hannah Grover | 24 hours ago

      A U.S. Supreme Court decision issued Thursday limits the ability for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to implement measures to combat climate change.  In a 6-3 ruling, the high court ruled that Congress did not give the EPA the authority to devise emission caps “based on the generation shifting approach the Agency took in the Clean Power Plan” when it passed the Clean Air Act.

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    • 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.

    • Rail Runner funding removed from junior spending bill
      By Hannah Grover | April 6, 2022

      The Rail Runner will not be receiving $1 million to temporarily reduce fares to riders.

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    • Guv talks about New Mexico reproductive rights with Biden

      Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and other Democratic governors met virtually with President Joe Biden on Friday to discuss what Democratic-led states are doing to protect abortion rights.

    • PRC accuses PNM of misleading regulators, requires utility to issue rate credits upon San Juan unit closures

      While accusing the state’s largest electric utility of purposefully misleading regulators, the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission ordered the Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) to issue rate credits to customers upon the closure of each remaining unit of the San Juan Generating Station.

    • Grant County chooses not to renew contract with federal wildlife killing agency

      A rural county in the heart of wolf country chose not to renew a contract with the federal agency tasked with killing carnivores that are deemed problematic.

    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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