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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s two U.S. senators have joined fellow Democrats and environmentalists in calling for the embattled chief of the Environmental Protection Agency to resign. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich issued statements Thursday, taking aim at Scott Pruitt’s policy decisions and recent suggestions that he...

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., stopped in Gallup April 2 to announce the Degrees Not Debt Act and to support the construction of the Gallup Veterans Cemetery. During his visit, he spoke to fellow democrats at the Jim Harlin Community Pantry about his bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate. Heinrich said voters of the region should cast their ballots...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement calling for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt to resign: "Scott Pruitt has been surrounded by ethical problems and has failed to take the core mission of the Environmental Protection Agency seriously. He has been plagued by conflicts of...

To know the Plains of San Agustin of western New Mexico is to love it. I remember the first time I drove west of Magdalena and laid eyes on this vast expanse of grasslands. A couple winters ago, I took my son Carter on an elk hunt in the Continental Divide Wilderness Study Area where the views stretch out for miles above the surrounding plains....

WASHINGTON, D.C. -  U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced the passage of several conservation measures that he has championed to expand access to public lands and improve the health and resiliency of New Mexico’s land, water, wildlife, and the communities that...

WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined the full Senate in voting 65-32 for an omnibus appropriations bill to fund the government. The U.S. House of Representatives has approved the bill, and the president signed...

At a time of extraordinary political division, it’s rare that a public lands bill gets sweeping bipartisan support. Fights over how to manage public lands rage in today’s West, from disputes over national monument boundaries to whether states should have control over federal lands. Yet when Rep. Rob Bishop, R-UT, brought a public...

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.) announced that small businesses in several New Mexico counties will be eligible for low-interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced bipartisan and bicameral legislation to address the maintenance backlog at our national parks. The National Park Restoration Act will help restore and rebuild roads, buildings, campgrounds, trails and water...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, 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.) responded to news that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will cancel a planned oil and gas lease sale in the Greater Chaco region. More than 450...

ALBUQUERQUE -- Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) launched a Solar Toolkit to connect communities to resources and proven strategies to go solar. The online toolkit is a comprehensive guide to connect local governments, tribes, schools, rural businesses, local power providers, and others with the resources they need to build...

Sen. Martin Heinrich made a return to Albuquerque on Thursday to talk solar power at the Central New Mexico Community College Workforce Training Center. City leaders such as Mayor Tim Keller and City Councilor Pat Davis, along with other energy representatives joined Heinrich as he unveiled what he is calling his Solar...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined 11 Democratic senators in pressing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to postpone the development of management plans for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah until legal challenges regarding the president’s authority to reduce the size...

WASHINGTON D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Land Management announced that it is proposing to replace the 2016 rule to limit the waste of taxpayer-owned natural gas on public lands. In New Mexico alone, over $100 million in taxpayer-owned natural...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) presided as acting Ranking Member of a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests and Mining hearing and worked to advance two conservation bills he introduced with U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement tonight after President Trump delivered his first State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. Senator Heinrich's special guest this evening was Ivonne Orozco-Acosta, Dreamer and 2018 New Mexico Teacher of the Year from Albuquerque,...

WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Senator Tom Udall led a letter, also signed by Senator Martin Heinrich, urging Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to keep public lands public by prohibiting widespread sale and transfer of public lands. The senators asked Zinke to uphold the Department of the Interior's responsibility to retain America's...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement in response to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s report on national monuments, that includes recommended changes to Rio Grande del Norte and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —  U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Dean Heller (R-Nev.) led a group of senators to introduce a bill to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act (FLTFA). Before it expired in 2011, FLTFA allowed the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement after President Trump signed proclamations eliminating Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments and replacing them with five new and much smaller...