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.
Echoing sentiments expressed by U.S. House Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., last week, more than 49 percent of the shareholders of an oil and gas company working in New Mexico’s San Juan Basin and the Permian Basin of West Texas recently asked for more transparency in hydraulic fracturing operations.
State oil and gas regulators are spread too thin to do their jobs effectively, concludes an investigative piece by ProPublica that compares the degree to which drilling has increased in 22 states with staffing levels at the state agencies…
A process pioneered by Halliburton, called hydraulic fracturing, shoots vast amounts of water, sand and chemicals several miles underground to break apart rock and release the gas. Over the last few years, however, a series of contamination incidents have ignited a debate over whether the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing may threaten the nation’s increasingly precious drinking water supply.
