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.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., visited the Gulf Coast yesterday to survey the damage done by an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He also praised the work New Mexico’s labs are doing to help.
Former Sandia Laboratory Director Tom Hunter was part of a team put together by President Barack Obama to study ways to stop the oil spill. And the labs have been involved in the latest effort to contain the oil, the so-called “top kill” method.
Bingaman, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement, “After spending time in the Gulf, it’s clear to me that there is an aggressive effort underway to solve this problem.”
The oil spill has been gushing oil for weeks — the latest predictions of up to four million gallons a day.
“I have hopes that the attempt later this week to stop the leak will be successful,” Bingaman said. “I am also glad to know that both Sandia and Los Alamos has some of their best and brightest people working with BP and the federal government.”
Bingaman is holding hearings on the oil spill today in Washington D.C.
