Farmers have been told to expect longer wait times between irrigation deliveries and were encouraged to “take water when it is available.”
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‘An open graveyard’: Skeletal remains lie unrecovered in New Mexico’s borderlands
SANTA TERESA — The rosary hung from a branch of mesquite, its light blue beads swaying in the breeze. The site was a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. It wasn’t far from paved roads, a truck stop, the city of El Paso. But amid the sand and shrubs — all of them too short, […]
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LANL’s toxic chromium plume migrates to pueblo, New Mexico Environment Department says
A decades-old toxic chromium plume from Los Alamos National Laboratory has migrated onto San Ildefonso Pueblo land, the New Mexico Environment Department announced Thursday. There is “no imminent threat to drinking water” on the pueblo or in Los Alamos County, the Environment Department said in a statement. But the new groundwater testing results “are conclusive […]
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Beaver Fever
As conservationists know, these clever dam-building rodents are a boon to recovering wetlands. But they can also contribute to flooding that causes catastrophic damage to acequias, which are crucial to traditional farmers in villages like Chimayó, New Mexico
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The battle against federal ownership of New Mexico’s public lands
Meet Howard Hutchinson, a private property rights activist who is quietly organizing county-level rejection of a landmark law: the Antiquities Act of 1906
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A long tradition of anti-federal wrath
Howard Hutchinson’s group, the Coalition, has roots in decades-old movements which hold that state governments and private entities would be the best stewards of America’s public lands
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Plutonium just had a bad day in court
In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion — has to be performed in accordance with the nation’s strongest environmental law
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“Extreme” fires sweep through Ruidoso
Entire town is evacuated; state of emergency is declared
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A power play on the Caja
The government wants a new transmission line on a treasured plateau. Opponents say it’s a line too far.
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Burning question: What’s the right place for a solar farm?
Fire hazards have Eldorado residents dead set against a solar project, underscoring a national quandary: Some renewables come with risks.