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    New Mexico National Priorities List Superfund Sites

    Published March 7, 2019 at 779 × 825 in New Mexico National Priorities List Superfund Sites

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    • As the last coal burned, San Juan Generating Station employees expressed a mixture of emotions
      By Hannah Grover | 6 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.

    Recent Posts

    • A petroleum PR blitz in New Mexico

      In the past seven months, oil and gas companies have dramatically stepped up their outreach and public relations spending at some of New Mexico’s best-known, best-loved events.

    • Use it or lose it: NM Supreme Court rules unused water rights can be lost even if some of the water is used

      New Mexicans who do not use all of their groundwater rights for a certain length of time can lose the rights to the unused portion, according to a new ruling out of the state Supreme Court.

    • A solution for homelessness in Las Cruces finds little traction elsewhere

      On a sweltering day at the end of July, Mike Amos crouched by his tent, fiddling with a few car batteries powered by solar panels that sat on the bottom rack of a shopping cart.

    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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