press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement welcoming the Los Lunas Facebook data center representing more than a $1 billion total investment in New Mexico:  “I’m excited to welcome Facebook’s continued investment in New Mexico and am proud to have helped secure this new...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned key officials today during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on the hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The hearing included testimony from Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló Nevares, U.S. Virgin Islands...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M) announced $32.2 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development loans to increase access to affordable energy by building and improving electric...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) questioned key officials during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing today on the potential for oil and gas exploration and development in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The hearing included testimony from Alaskan elected officials and Tribal government...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Nov. 2, 2017) - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, delivered back-to-back speeches on the Senate Floor to urge support for their bipartisan legislation to protect American election systems from foreign interference. The Securing...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced Senate passage of a bipartisan resolution authored by Udall and Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and cosponsored by Heinrich, designating Oct. 30, 2017, as the ninth National Day of Remembrance to honor the contributions of thousands of New Mexicans and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Tomorrow, Thursday, November 2, 2017 at 7:30 a.m. MT/ 9:30 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will question key officials during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on the potential for oil and gas exploration and development in the non-wilderness portion of the...

Amid its clear penchant for ignoring the facts and scientific analysis to promote a political agenda, the Trump administration’s decision to force American consumers to bail out uncompetitive coal-fired and nuclear power plants should come as no surprise. However, the destabilizing consequences and fact-free nature of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is calling on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to provide additional resources and better coordinate efforts on the ground in the face of a growing public health crisis in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands following Hurricanes Irma and Maria to ensure the more than 3.5...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, cosponsored legislation led by U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) to standardize the metric used by federal agencies to measure the cost of climate pollution. The Pollution Transparency Act counters a directive...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, testified before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to oppose raising tariffs on imported solar panels and modules. In August, Senators Heinrich and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), along with a bipartisan group of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, October 3, at 9:30 a.m. ET/7:30 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, will testify before the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to oppose raising tariffs on imported solar panels and modules.  In August, Senators Heinrich...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) introduced the bipartisan Energy Storage Tax Incentive and Deployment Act of 2017, co-sponsored by U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Al Franken (D-Minn.), Angus King (I-Maine),...

WASHINGTON D.C.— Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall, top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, and Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that the Department of the Interior (DOI) is providing more than $1.1 million in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Sens. Al Franken (D-Minn.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), members of the Senate Energy Committee, introduced a job-creating measure that will help strengthen our country’s energy infrastructure.                                ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) issued the following joint statement in response to the U.S. International Trade Commission’s (ITC) decision ruling that imported solar panels are causing "serious injury" to U.S. manufacturers in Section 201 global safeguard case...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) introduced the Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2017, legislation to modernize the nation’s antiquated hardrock mining laws. The bill...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) introduced legislation to authorize an Energy Technology Maturation Program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to facilitate successful commercialization of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  Today, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 1 p.m. MT/ 3 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, will introduce bipartisan legislation in a Subcommittee on Energy hearing to authorize an Energy Technology Maturation Program at the U.S....

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) participated in a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Joseph Balash to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Land and Minerals Management, Richard Glick and Kevin McIntyre to be Members of the Federal Energy Regulatory...