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.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who unveiled this week a stand-alone bill that would require a certain percentage of the country’s energy to come from renewable sources, said today that comprehensive climate legislation won’t be able to pass the Senate in…
A proposed state-of-the-art, 68-bed teaching hospital in Rio Rancho has gotten a vote-of-confidence from the federal government that helps pave the way for its eventual reality, members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation announced Thursday.
The Federal Housing Administration has…
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved the Small Business Jobs Act, a $42 billion bill aimed helping create jobs through tax breaks and by making it easier for small businesses to get loans through small, community banks.
It also includes contains…
Democratic Rep. Harry Teague, in a close race with former Republican Congressman Steve Pearce, has signaled his support for extending the Bush tax cuts for the highest-earning Americans. Teague this week signed a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy…
Funding for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories helped New Mexico bring in more federal dollars per person than all but four other states, federal databases show for fiscal year 2009. Only Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Virgina received more money…
Although consumers, industry groups and governments are embracing renewable energy, the country isn’t yet delivering as much as it could because of a lack of transmission lines an other infrastructure needed to get the power from point A to point…
The New Mexico Corrections Department has received $500,000 in federal funding to help maximum-security prisoners transition back into their communities after their release, according to the office of U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman.
The money will help the state agency…
Decades of clear-cut logging, heavy livestock grazing and fire suppression efforts have left the Valles Caldera in poor ecological condition, according to a proposed 10-year restoration plan that calls for prescribed burns, forest thinning and stream bank restoration efforts. The board of trustees is now taking public comment on the plan.
The health insurance reform law that was enacted in March “substantially improves” the financial outlook of the Medicare program, according to an annual report of the board of trustees established by the Social Security Act to oversee the finances of…
U.S. senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman introduced a bill in Congress to create a “Center of Excellence” research program at the University of New Mexico (UNM) for cavernous angioma.
Cavernous angioma is a rare, genetic brain…
Environmental groups have participated in a series of meetings in recent weeks to press Senate staff to strengthen the renewable energy standard (RES) included in the energy bill passed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s (D-N.M.) Energy and Natural Resources Committee last year. The RES in the bill would require that 15 percent of the country’s electricity come from renewable sources, a standard that most environmentalists think is far too weak.
Citing a new report by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that corn-based ethanol subsidies cost taxpayers more than $7 billion a year, Sen. Jeff Bingaman Thursday voiced support for cuts to the ethanol tax credit…
The United States Senate voted 60-39 to pass a sweeping financial reform bill today, “overhauling the regulation of everything from the biggest banks to consumer financial products to exotic instruments like credit-default swaps to the derivatives used by farmers.”…
Local environmental groups are airing a TV ad this week asking Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., to use his position as chairman of a key Senate panel to help push a climate bill, according to the Associated Press.
Bingaman has…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., introduced legislation today that would reform drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. The legislation, S. 3516, is in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill that continues to pour oil into the Gulf.
Any hopes of a climate bill may be on the shoulders of New Mexico’s Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who is drafting a utility-only climate bill.
Politico noted today that while…
A nuclear waste watchdog group says the state hasn’t done enough to make sure radioactive and toxic waste isn’t leaking from Sandia National Labs’ mixed waste landfill. Rebuffed by regional EPA officials, Citizen Action New Mexico now wants agency brass in Washington, D.C. and New Mexico Attorney General Gary King’s office to review the state Environment Department’s regulation of the site.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is working on writing a utilities-only energy bill “that would cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants” according to The New York Times. The Times says such a bill, less ambitious than the cap…
Uranium mining in Churchrock advanced last week as an appeals court cleared the way for Hydro Resources to start in-situ leaching in Northwest New Mexico. But residents and environmentalists worry that the mining will contaminate water. Because of the ongoing issue of abandoned mines that haven’t been cleaned up and a legacy of illness caused by exposure in the mines, the Navajo Nation banned uranium mining of all types in 2005.
