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WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, a bill to withdraw the lands around Chaco Canyon from further development by the federal government. The bill would ensure the protection of Chaco ruins and the greater...

When President Donald Trump imposed a 30 percent tariff on solar panel imports, energy leaders in New Mexico said the industry would see it through, but had to brace for some unpleasant times. On Tuesday, Mercom Capital Group, an Austin-based research and communication service, released a first-quarter report on corporate and venture...

Hurricane season starts in exactly two weeks, prompting worries that the island — still in recovery mode from Hurricane Maria — is not ready to face another storm season. On Tuesday, several members of the Power 4 Puerto Rico coalition, comprised of several nonprofits and advocacy groups issued a warning to the federal...

Local and laboratory officials expressed optimism and relief following the decision by the National Nuclear Security Administration to include the Los Alamos National Laboratory in its plutonium pit manufacturing program. An internal memo from Los Alamos National Laboratory Director Terry Wallace Jr. to employees Thursday and obtained by the Los...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) released the following statement in response to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) recommended alternative for recapitalization of plutonium pit...

SANTA FE, N.M. — Jimmie Lueder worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the 1950s during the Cold War. All she’ll say is that she worked as “support staff.” Now 88 and living in Albuquerque, Lueder has suffered from several cancers since the ’70s, likely due to her work with radioactive materials all those years...

They may not agree on all of the details, but Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), who both sit on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, concur on the necessity of updating national energy policies and addressing questions surrounding national electric transmission infrastructure. A nationwide conversation is playing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, May 10, 2018 at 7 a.m. MT/ 9 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will be a featured panelist with U.S. Senator John Hoeven (R-N.D.) at The Washington Post's Energy 202 Live event to discuss energy priorities, the security of America’s energy grid, and ways to combat...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) delivered opening remarks and questioned officials in a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the current status of Puerto Rico’s electric grid and proposals for the future operation of the grid. VIDEO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich Delivers Opening...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Federal legislators grilled U.S. and Puerto Rico officials on Tuesday on why power has not been fully restored to the island nearly eight months after Hurricane Maria, and as a new storm season looms. Lawmakers at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources also questioned why the U.S....

It’s now been seven months since Hurricane Maria shredded Puerto Rico. Thousands Americans on the island still don’t have power, and this year’s hurricane season, expected to be busy, begins in less than a month. Last year’s Category 4 storm that toppled 80 percent of the island’s power lines and flooded its...

Eight months after Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico’s power grid, causing the largest blackout in U.S. history, more than 98 percent of the people have their power back. The remaining two percent may have to wait a while. Though about 23,000 of the 1.47 million customers remain without power, U.S. officials said Tuesday they plan on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Steve Pearce (R-N.M.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) welcomed the launch of a new program to develop and implement long-term water...

In a bid to help more New Mexican residents, businesses, power providers, and municipalities go solar, US Senator Martin Heinrich has launched an online solar toolkit that offers resources for those considering solar power, along with solar success stories and information on potential funding sources. “It is my hope that this solar toolkit...

When you visit Portales, it is hard to miss the dozens of historic windmills on display at the Dalley Windmill Museum on the Roosevelt County Fairgrounds. For 30 years, Bill and Alta Dalley went throughout the Great Plains collecting the largest private collection of windmills in the nation. These windmills remind visitors of wind energy’s...

WASHINGTON D.C. – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M) and Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M) joined a group of 106 U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives, led by Udall and Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-Colo.),...

Wind energy is one of the fastest growing forms of electricity generation in the United States, with the largest share renewable electricity generating capacity in the country, and according to new information from the American Wind Energy Association, wind energy now supplies more than 30% of the electricity in four states — Iowa, Kansas,...

New Mexico added wind power capacity at a faster rate than any other state in 2017, according to a national trade association report. Wind power supplies about 13.5 percent of all energy in the state, enough to power more than 422,000 homes. And with a bevy of wind projects in development, New Mexico is poised to more than double its capacity over...

(U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich Tours Sagamore Wind Project and Roosevelt Wind Farm in Dora, N.M., April 5, 2018)  WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) toured the future site of the Sagamore Wind Project, which will be the largest wind farm in New Mexico's history, and the Roosevelt Wind Farm in Dora,...

DORA — Wind was on the minds of some Roosevelt County residents on Thursday, but not because their hats were flying off. Landowner Bill Rush touted the economic benefits that come from the energy-producing turbines on the Roosevelt Wind Farm and the planned Sagamore Wind Project, both south of Portales. Rush thanked U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich,...