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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation are calling on federal aviation officials to waive a requirement that could affect the annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta as well as year-round flights over the city. A letter outlining the concerns was sent Thursday to the Federal Aviation...

After two challenging years, the economy is growing faster than it has since 1984. The American Rescue Plan and the landmark Infrastructure Law that I helped pass last year are creating the foundation for an incredibly robust economic recovery. As your senator, I have done everything in my power to steer resources to our state so we can come back...

Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) said Wednesday that he has spoken with Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) about the clean energy provisions in the Build Back Better Act and he remains “optimistic” about their passage. “I am actually optimistic that we're going to be able to get somewhere on this. I don't know...

GREENWIRE | Bipartisan legislation introduced today would make it easier for nonprofits and other outfits to help clean up abandoned hardrock mines by wiping away past liabilities for acquiring the sites. The bill, authored by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), would clarity that so-called good Samaritans — potential property owners looking...

Sen. Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) led a bipartisan group of eight senators Thursday asking President Biden not to extend Trump-era tariffs on imported solar panels. The Section 201 tariffs, set to expire Feb. 6, have cost more than 62,000 American clean-energy jobs, according to the senators, citing the Solar Energies Industry...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich made a visit to Valencia County Tuesday, with stops in both Los Lunas and Belen, to gauge the impact of infrastructure dollars he helped bring into the area. “Valencia County is a really good transportation hub. You have places where you can build, you have access to rail, you have the highway system and you have...

BELEN, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico is going to benefit from the federal infrastructure package passed by Congress. Senator Martin Heinrich was in Belen on Tuesday to talk about where some of that money is going. New Mexico airports to receive $18M from Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Heinrich chose to visit the Belen Municipal Airport...

As the riots in our nation's Capitol unfolded, New Mexico lawmakers were there witnessing the attack. It's a day Democratic U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich can't forget. "It was a pretty harrowing day. I witnessed firsthand some things I never thought I would see at the US Capitol. I'll just be blunt," Heinrich said. "I don't think anybody who was there...

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich announced bicameral legislation last week to seek federal approval for the state’s proposed constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, would tap an additional 1.25 percent from the Land Grant Permanent Fund. Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbuy, both Democrats, introduced the legislation. U.S....

Federal regulators are looking for ways to spend $250 million earmarked for cleaning up abandoned oil wells throughout the U.S. funded by the recent infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden. The program to distribute the federal dollars to states for cleaning up the wells was planned to be enacted by Jan....

Federal regulators are looking for ways to spend $250 million earmarked for cleaning up abandoned oil wells throughout the U.S. funded by the recent infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden. The program to distribute the federal dollars to states for cleaning up the wells was planned to be enacted by Jan....

Air Force bases in New Mexico including Alamogordo’s Holloman Air Force Base and Cannon Air Force Base near Clovis received millions of dollars in federal funding through an annual spending bill approved by Congress and sent to the desk of President Joe Biden to become law. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) also included funding...

New Mexico’s national laboratories and its repository for nuclear waste – the only of its kind in the nation – received millions of dollars this year via an annual bill that provides funding for national-defense-related facilities across the U.S. The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was passed by both the U.S. House and...

In addition to providing about $2 billion for New Mexico military facilities and Department of Energy sites, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 contains another section that could interest some in the area. An amendment co-sponsored by Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-Albuquerque) to establish a new office to gather and analyze...

Hundreds of millions of dollars will soon pour into New Mexico for road and bridge improvement projects as part of the first round of spending authorized in a massive infrastructure bill signed into law last month by President Joe Biden. And that is just a fraction of the money that will trickle into New Mexico and other states from the $1.2...

At a time when it has become difficult to find many areas of agreement in Washington, the outdoors have proven to be a real uniting force. The two of us were proud to help lead the bipartisan effort last year to pass the historic Great American Outdoors Act into law, which is already helping us tackle the longstanding infrastructure backlog at our...

The U.S. Senate has approved a military spending bill that would boost funding significantly for Los Alamos National Laboratory’s nuclear weapons program and waste removal, while also providing money to clean up cancer-causing pollution at two Air Force bases. The National Defense Authorization Act, which approves $770 billion for the...

A bill sponsored by New Mexico’s senior U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) to fund conservation of threatened and endangered species advanced in Congress this week, receiving its first hearing in the U.S. Senate. Co-sponsored by U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA) would, if passed, provide...

New Mexico’s multi-billion-dollar outdoor recreation industry struggled in 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic but was already recovering, officials said, as businesses reopened, and visitation surged. A study from the Bureau of Economic Analysis ranked New Mexico as 27th in the nation for outdoor recreation’s contribution to the...

Each year, hundreds of thousands of college students drop out of their program and leave school, with significant negative impacts on their future earnings and employment. This college completion crisis has major consequences for our broader economy and workforce — millions of workers are not in the labor force and tens of billions of dollars...