Shiprock, NM: Today, at the first of eight Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) scoping meetings, agency officials walked out on community members attempting to give public comment. Held at Shiprock Chapter House, BLM hosted informational tables encircling the community room, and instructed attendees to give public comment at one [...]
"Reinforcing earlier studies, a new report published in the journal Science Advances says the U.S. Southwest faces between a 70 and 90 percent chance of megadroughts this century as planetary temperatures rise. Megadroughts have been linked to the demise of several pre-industrial civilizations. They are comparable to the worst droughts of the 20th century but [...]
CVNM & CVNMAF New Mexico General Election Endorsements: Statewide Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver Northwestern NM House of Representatives HD 4 – Glo Jean Todacheene (San Juan) HD 38 – Mary Hotvedt (Grant, Hidalgo & Sierra) North Central NM House of Representatives HD 10 – Rep. Andres Romero (Bernalillo) HD 15 – Ane Romero [...]
Devin Neeley November 07, 2016 06:46 PM In North Dakota, they protest by the thousands. The Dakota Access Pipeline project site is where protests have erupted while a 1,200-mile pipeline is built. There is a similar pipeline in the works in New Mexico. The Pinon Pipeline project is still in the early stages of planning, [...]
FARMINGTON — The Bureau of Land Management’s Farmington Field Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs Navajo Regional Office will be working together to examine management of public, tribal and Indian lands in northwest New Mexico, including possible leasing areas around Chaco Canyon. Among the goals is protecting cultural sites and vegetation and minimizing surface disruption, [...]
"CUSHING, Okla. — A magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered near one of the world's key oil hubs brought down building facades and shattered windows in a central Oklahoma city, rendering century-old buildings unsafe and raising concerns about key infrastructure. Cushing Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frazier told a news conference late Sunday that a few minor injuries [...]
By Ben Ratner Global attention on oil and gas methane emissions is taking off. The International Energy Agency has recognized that “the potential for natural gas to play a credible role in the transition to a decarbonized energy system fundamentally depends on minimizing these [methane] emissions.” North American heads of state recently committed to reduce oil [...]
by Kent Paterson "As a telenovela-like script of sex-tainted scandal rivets the mainstream news in the days before the incendiary 2016 U.S. presidential election, serious coverage of many matters decisive for the future of this country and the world has apparently been relegated to another day. Yet far from the sensationalist media circus, defining issues [...]
by Michael Astor UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday - a landmark deal about tackling global warming amid growing fears that the world is becoming hotter even faster than scientists expected. So far, 96 countries, accounting for just over two-thirds of the world's greenhouse gas [...]
"President Obama has pointed a way out of a dangerous standoff over an oil pipeline being built in North Dakota. He told an interviewer on Tuesday that the Army Corps of Engineers was looking for a new pipeline route, presumably away from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, whose members and allies have been protesting the project [...]