press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on H.R. 621, a bill reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would sell off 3.3 million acres of public land, including 800,000 acres in New Mexico:  “This bill would sell...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) voted in support of Secretary of the Interior nominee U.S. Congressman Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.) during a Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources business meeting. “While we are clearly not going to agree on every issue, I believe it's very important to have a Westerner...

SANTA FE, N.M. – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) addressed a joint session of the New Mexico Legislature. Heinrich began his remarks by denouncing President Trump's executive order banning refugees and immigrants from entering the U.S. from several majority Muslim nations. “We are not a country that discriminates based...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that they have renewed efforts to expand restitution for New Mexicans and others who have been affected by exposure to radiation during the development and testing of nuclear weapons in the Cold War by reintroducing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA)....

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after President Trump signed executive actions to revive the Dakota Access and Keystone XL Pipelines: "President Trump has shown a blatant disregard for tribal sovereignty and responsible energy development. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and tribes...

WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) urged their fellow senators to oppose efforts in Congress that would allow the unnecessary waste of natural gas at oil and gas facilities on federal and Indian lands. Calling for fiscal responsibility with...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and U.S. Representative Ben Ray Luján denounced the decision by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Justice that the EPA is not liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act for damages caused by the Gold King Mine Spill. The lawmakers vowed to continue...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement on President Obama's designation of the Bears Ears National Monument in southern Utah:  "The Bears Ears region, a spectacular landscape with its big skies and red rocks east of the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich announced that Sandia National Laboratories will receive $2.4 million to identify crops that take in less water, reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizer, trap carbon deep in the soil, and improve soil quality. The project is being funded through one of the newest programs of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, made the following statement in response to reports that the Trump transition team is asking the U.S. Department of Energy for the names of federal and national laboratory employees who have worked on climate policy during the...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that a bipartisan measure to expedite reimbursements to Tribal, local and state governments for costs incurred in responding to the Gold King Mine spill has passed both Houses of Congress as an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on President-elect Donald Trump nominating U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-5) to be the Department of the Interior Secretary. Senator Heinrich is a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee that will vet the nominee. "I look...

WASHINGTON, D.C.  — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after the Obama Administration announced that it will not grant the final easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline: "President Obama has just risen to the challenge and listened to all of our voices to reject the current route of the Dakota Access...

TAOS — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., had a strong response to a Utah congressman’s recent suggestion that President-elect Donald Trump should undo national monument designations. “Any admin that tries to reverse 100-year history of #PublicLands that belong to every American, is going to have to do it over my dead body,”...

Regarding Sen. Martin Heinrich’s letter to President Obama requesting that he rescind Monday’s eviction at Standing Rock: This is a very welcome breakthrough. With Heinrich’s leadership, other senators and Congress members will step forward. I also predict that the “arbitrary” date of Dec. 5 will be overturned by the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) called on President Obama to work with the Corps of Engineers and the Department of Justice to de-escalate the violence at Camp Oceti Sakowin in North Dakota. In particular, he questioned the decision to close the area to demonstrators of the Dakota Access pipeline on December 5,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement on the Dakota Access pipeline: "Today is Thanksgiving and I cannot help but reflect on our history in these United States and how often it has not lived up to the rosy picture of Pilgrims and Indians sharing a meal in friendly company that I saw in...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Reps. Ben Ray Luján and Michelle Lujan Grisham welcomed the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) final rule to save taxpayers' money and energy resources and reduce harmful emissions by curbing the wasteful venting, flaring and leaks of natural gas.  The BLM's...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, November 14, from 5:30 p.m.- 7 p.m., U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Parks, and Tom Udall (D-N.M.), lead Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee for Interior, Environment and Related Agencies, will be the honorary co-hosts of a U.S. Capitol reception in...

PHOTO: U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich at the Estancia Valley Economic Development Association in Moriarty celebrates the construction of the new El Cabo Wind Farm, October 17, 2016. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.  -- U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, highlighted how the...