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Elephant Butte Reservoir on Sept. 10, 2018, when it was at 3.7 percent capacity

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Lawmakers protected themselves when redistricting, report finds
By Gwyneth Doland, New Mexico In Depth | September 30, 2022
New Mexico lawmakers protected themselves and their colleagues when they redrew political district maps crafted by a 2021 nonpartisan advisory commission, shielding incumbents of both parties from competition and making legislative elections less competitive, according to a new 59-page report co-authored by University of New Mexico political science professor Gabriel Sanchez.
As the last coal burned, San Juan Generating Station employees expressed a mixture of emotions
By Hannah Grover | September 29, 2022
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.

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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.

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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