press releases

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), John Fetterman (D-Pa.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to introduce legislation to invest in public research, develop regionally adapted seed varieties and animal breeds, and enable the U.S. to maintain a robust and resilient food and agricultural...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies, welcomes the Senate Appropriations Committee’s bipartisan, unanimous passage of his Fiscal Year 24 (FY24) Department of Agriculture and Food and Drug...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Vice Chair of the National Service Congressional Caucus and the first AmeriCorps alum to serve in the United States Senate, and Bill Cassidy (R-N.D.), Co-Chair of the National Service Congressional Caucus, announced that the U.S. Senate has passed a bipartisan resolution to...

WASHINGTON – In their latest effort to safeguard the Upper Pecos Watershed from future mineral development, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are calling on the U.S. Forest Service to outline the process by which the agency will assess the...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined their bipartisan colleagues U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and others to introduce the Headwaters Protection Act. This bipartisan legislation would expand support for two U.S. Forest Service (USFS) programs created by...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), member of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), member of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, publicly praised new water pollution limits proposed by the EPA that could stop 584 million pounds of pollution from entering U.S....

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency, which undercuts the EPA’s authority to address pollution in New Mexico’s...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Representative Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, introduced House and Senate versions of the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act to modernize the nation’s...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W. Va.), celebrated the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee’s passage of their bipartisan Simplifying Outdoor Access for Recreation (SOAR) Act, legislation to improve the permitting process for outfitters, educational organizations, and community...

SILVER CITY, N.M. – Tuesday and Wednesday, April 11 and 12, 2023, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will celebrate newly reintroduced legislation, a recent federal grant to the Silver Consolidated Schools, and the work being done with previously secured federal funding at Western New Mexico University.   On Tuesday, April...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) recently sat down with the Washington Post to discuss the reintroduction of his bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (RAWA).During the interview, Senator Heinrich emphasized the need to ensure that even lesser-known and “uncharismatic” species are protected...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) brought together Tribal and local leaders to showcase the growing momentum behind community-driven legislation to protect the Buffalo Tract. During the event, Senator Heinrich and Representative Stansbury called on the U.S....

WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Gabe Vasquez (D-N.M.) introduced legislation to designate portions of the Gila River, its watershed and other rivers in the Gila National Forest as Wild and Scenic Rivers. The M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River Act will be a boon to New...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) introduced legislation to establish Cerro de la Olla Wilderness within the Río Grande del Norte National Monument in northern New Mexico. U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) are...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) introduced the bipartisan Continental Divide Trail Completion Act. This legislation would direct the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Secretary of the U.S....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) introduced the Buffalo Tract Protection Act to withdraw four parcels of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in southern Sandoval County, including the Buffalo Tract and the Crest of Montezuma, from any mineral development, including gravel...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court has declined a petition from Chama Troutstalkers, LLC and Z&T Cattle Co., LLC to review last year’s landmark ruling by the New Mexico Supreme Court, which reaffirmed the public’s longstanding right under the New Mexico...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the Gila National Forest working with USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Wildlife Services to remove feral cattle from within the boundaries of the Gila Wilderness:   “For decades, unbranded feral cattle have charged...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.) led a group of 76 members in the House and Senate in a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supporting stronger standards to reduce methane emissions and pollution from oil and...

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) reintroduced the Abandoned Well Remediation Research and Development Act (AWRRDA) to support the identification and remediation of abandoned gas and oil wells. These abandoned...