By Sarah Halasz Graham | sgraham@sfnewmexican.com Environmentalists and some residents in northwest New Mexico are denouncing a move by one of the state’s largest natural gas producers that would allow for more extraction in what they describe as an already densely drilled region. Texas-based Hilcorp Energy Co., a privately held outfit that in 2017 purchased [...]
Drained by farmers and divided by treaty, America’s second-longest river is running dry. By Richard Parker The Rio Grande near La Joya, N.M., in August. Less snowpack means the river is being drained dry by irrigation demands.CreditCreditIvan Pierre Aguirre for The New York Times EL PASO — One of North America’s great rivers is dying. Stretching [...]
by Amy Sawitta Lefevre BANGKOK, (Reuters) - Governments are not on track to meet a goal of the 2015 Paris agreement of capping temperatures well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) before the end of the century, a United Nations official said on Sunday ahead of climate-change talks in Bangkok this week. Patricia Espinosa, head of the [...]
In 2017, New Mexico's Rio Grande del Norte National Monument avoided an acreage reduction during the U.S. Interior Department's review of 27 national monuments. (conservationslands.org) August 27, 2018 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico's U.S. senators, two of its three U.S. representatives, plus tribal, conservation and community leaders have gotten behind a bill that would strengthen [...]
Retake Our Democracy 2018 General Election Strategy Retake Our Democracy has developed a 2018 General Election Strategy that is designed to make it easier for New Mexicans to target their time and donations strategically. Our strategy is not to pick 3-4 races and then coordinate canvassing and calling, but rather to do the research on national, [...]
Hilcorp, now NM's largest nat gas producer is fast tracking a permanent rule change at OCD to double the number of wells they can drill in 2 formations in 2 counties in the San Juan Basin. Estimated additional wells? 7,500. Hearing date? Sept. 13. Public input allowed? Hell no...that's why we've got to flood the [...]
Boycott the Bottle at Zozobra 2018 - Volunteer TODAY! The Santa Fe Green Chamber of Commerce and SFWA have collaborated with the Kiwanis Club to make this year’s Zozobra event a plastic water bottle free event. This means that only re-useable bottles will be sold and water will be supplied for free to event-goers. WE NEED YOU to volunteer [...]
FILE - In this May 31, 2018, file photo, the low level of the water line is shown on the banks of the Colorado River in Hoover Dam, Ariz. U.S. officials say the chances of a shortage in the vital Colorado River system have risen to 57 percent in 2020. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, [...]
By Lucas Herndon This week, Rep. Steve Pearce proposed toll roads as the answer to the massive amounts of traffic on Southeastern New Mexico highways due to the boom in oil production and the corresponding increase in oil traffic. The increased congestion along highway 285 outside of Lovington has given it the dubious nickname “highway of death.” The idea is [...]
By WILL WEISSERT PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP) — As the nation plans new defenses against the more powerful storms and higher tides expected from climate change, one project stands out: an ambitious proposal to build a nearly 60-mile “spine” of concrete seawalls, earthen barriers, floating gates and steel levees on the Texas Gulf Coast. Like [...]