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    Published May 4, 2017 at 1250 × 938 in Hidden-lead-fb-2_042517

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    • Enchant pushes forward with carbon capture project despite barriers
      By Hannah Grover | 18 hours ago

      While the San Juan Generating Station has closed, hopes of someday bringing back the coal jobs and the power plant remain.

    • PNM customers could face bill increases amid grid modernization effort
      By Hannah Grover | 18 hours ago

      The Public Service Company of New Mexico plans to spend $344 million on grid modernization over the next six years, resulting in an increase of about $1.20 per month in electricity bills for the average residential customer.

    • Asylum seekers go on hunger strike at Torrance County Detention Facility
      By Susan Dunlap | October 3, 2022

      A group of 13 detainees announced a hunger strike at Torrance County Detention Facility to protest “inhumane” conditions.

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    • 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.

    • 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.

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    • Ivey-Soto steps down from Rules committee chairmanship

      State Sen. Daniel Ivey-Soto stepped down from his position as the chair of a powerful Senate committee amid a scandal involving alleged sexual harassment.

    • As the last coal burned, San Juan Generating Station employees expressed a mixture of emotions

      In the more than four decades he worked at the San Juan Generating Station, Allen Palmer saw units three and four come online.

    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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