We deserve to know if Interior Secretary Zinke has proposed shrinking our national monuments or public lands — including Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument in New Mexico. But neither Secretary Zinke nor the White House has released the report to the public. Public lands support businesses, communities, and thousands […]
“Staff at the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been told to avoid using the term ‘climate change’ in their work, with the officials instructed to reference ‘weather extremes’ instead.” — The Guardian, 8/7/2017 You’ve probably heard the Shakespearean phrase “that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”? Well, […]
If you knew that the fruit or produce on sale at the grocery could make you or your children sick, would you still feel safe purchasing it? I’m guess the answer is no. The EPA’s chief administrator, Scott Pruitt seems to feel differently. He recently rejected a ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos, which has been linked […]
Climate change is a threat that we cannot afford to buck responsibility on. Without meaningful actions local communities will be harmed by longer droughts, more severe weather patterns, increased wildfires, and agricultural losses. Combatting climate change does not require sacrificing economic growth. With directed investment in clean, solar, wind, hydro, and other renewable energy sources […]
Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) early Wednesday read Coretta Scott King’s letter opposing Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) on the Senate floor hours after Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was silenced for trying to read the same letter. A few minutes into his formal remarks on the floor, Udall asked to enter the letter into the Senate record, […]
A pair of immigration-related orders signed Wednesday by President Donald Trump — calling in part for beginning construction on a border wall and withholding federal funds to “sanctuary cities” — were met with praise and disappointment by residents and leaders of southern New Mexico. For some, the proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border will amount […]
Commentary: U.S. Senator Tom Udall issued the following statement on President Trump’s executive order calling for the construction of a wall on the Southern border and to block local protections for immigrants: “As residents of a border state, New Mexicans know that border security is critically important to our national security. I support — and […]
Los Alamos citizens who participated in the Women’s March on Washington in Washington, D.C. and Santa Fe were invigorated by the event and inspired to further action. News sources estimate that more than 500,000 people attended the march in Washington with more than 1 million people demonstrating throughout the U.S. Local news sources such as […]
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