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.
A New Mexico oil refinery has been fined $707,000 after state investigators found the company knowingly failed to correct safety problems before a deadly March 2 storage tank explosion and fire at the company’s plant in Artesia, N.M.
The state Environment Department closed the spa and pool at Socorro Mayor Ravi Bhasker’s Best Western hotel last month after learning that at least two former guests had fallen ill with Legionnaire’s disease—a lethal disease that can be carried in water vapor—but no press releases or health advisories were announced. A hotel employee reached by phone Thursday said she had been told the pool was closed for “routine maintenance.”
While scientists agree that the potential impacts of climate change will be widespread—and in the already arid southwestern United States, severe—Congress has yet to pass climate change legislation. The move for federal cap and trade legislation—which would cap emissions but allow flexibility in compliance— is on its death bed, felled by the poor economy and vehement industry opposition, among other factors. As states grapple with how to move forward, in New Mexico, gubernatorial candidates on both side of the aisle agree that climate change regulation is not a state’s prerogative.
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department study, due next month, will show there are already significant threats posed to endangered species in the region by industrial and agricultural pollutants in the four corners region.
