Fire hazards have Eldorado residents dead set against a solar project, underscoring a national quandary: Some renewables come with risks.
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Chess, cards and catnaps in the heart of America’s nuclear weapons complex
At Los Alamos National Laboratory, workers collect full salaries for doing nothing
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The terrible emptiness of “Oppenheimer”
Bernice Gutierrez was eight days old when a light 10,000 times hotter than the surface of the sun cracked open the predawn sky. No one in south-central New Mexico knew where it came from, or that the tiniest units of matter could be split to unleash such energy. Nor could they know that when the […]
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Redlined and reeling
Here’s what happens when rural New Mexicans are priced out of homeowners insurance. Or denied it altogether.
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Diminishing returns
In the San Juan Basin, small oil and gas firms like Hilcorp reap profits from high-polluting wells. The impacts are major.
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When the new suicide hotline debuts, will New Mexico drop the call?
As the 988 rollout looms, demands for improved mental health services go largely unanswered
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The other energy crisis
Thousands of New Mexico households are struggling to keep the lights on and the water running. The ones who stand to lose the most: children.
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The core debate
A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Laboratory may be unsafe, unnecessary and ill-conceived. But proponents say the mission is a must.