I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
On MSNBC’s The Ed Show on Wednesday, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said that the companies responsible will pick up the tab for the oil spill in the that continues to leak an undetermined amount of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
“I think it‘s clear that the companies are committing themselves on the public record to pay all legitimate claims, to hold people harmless from the damages that they suffer as a result of this injury,” Bingamana said. “At least that‘s what they said.”
The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which Bingaman chairs, is holding hearings on the oil spill to determine what happened and what can be done.
Bingaman said that it wasn’t yet clear who was responsible for the sunk oil rig and subsequent spill.
“I would say that probably all of the above are at fault, and that we will find there were problems in the technology that was being used, the equipment,” Bingaman said. “There were problems with the mistakes that were made by the individuals operating that equipment. There were failures to adequately regulate and supervise this by the government agency that was responsible.”
Bingaman also said there is no push in Congress, that he knows of, for a bailout of oil companies.
