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Published March 6, 2019 at 1107 × 567 in cheri-2

Cheri Lerew at the Eagle Picher Carefree Battery Superfund site

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House panel backs tougher penalties on police assaults, rejects qualified immunity
By Santa Fe New Mexican | 16 hours ago
By Nathan Brown, Santa Fe New Mexican A House panel voted Saturday to advance a bill to increase penalties for some attacks on police officers, while rejecting two others that would have restored qualified immunity as a defense for officers facing misconduct complaints.
Bill focused on remediation of San Juan Generating Station, mine passes committee
By Hannah Grover | 16 hours ago
State Rep. Anthony Allison spoke about the uranium contamination that has impacted Navajo and Pueblo communities, including leading to increased cancer rates and groundwater contamination.
Dementia diagnoses on the rise in New Mexico
By Santa Fe New Mexican | 16 hours ago
By Phaedra Haywood, The Santa Fe New Mexican Everything is in its place at Carolyn and Royce Stewart's pin-neat south Santa Fe home. The cupboards are labeled: mugs, bowls, baking supplies.

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Committee tables bill to expand ONRT’s authority to pursue damages following contamination
By Hannah Grover | 16 hours ago
An effort to expand the state’s Natural Resources Trustee ability to sue companies that pollute New Mexico’s land and water failed to make it past its first committee despite significant changes made in a committee substitute.
Economic transition bill passes committee on party-line vote
By Hannah Grover | February 4, 2023
A bill intended to assist fossil fuel workers as the economy transitions passed the House Government, Elections and Indian Affairs Committee on a 6-3 party-line vote on Friday.

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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