press releases

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), founder and Co-Chair of the Electrification Caucus and member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is welcoming news from the Biden administration that the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project has reached a significant milestone.  The Department of the Interior and...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) joined Canary Media Senior Reporter Julian Spector for a live, virtual conversation on clean energy in a time of global conflict. Senator Heinrich plays a leading role in clean energy policy, serving on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the Senate Select Committee on...

WASHINGTON – Today, Tuesday, April 26, at 4 p.m. ET/2 p.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), founder and Co-Chair of the Electrification Caucus, will join Canary Media Senior Reporter Julian Spector for a live, virtual conversation “Clean energy in a time of global conflict.”  Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...

EL PRADO, N.M. - Ahead of Earth Day, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with local leaders to discuss affordable housing needs in Taos County, reducing energy burdens for low-income New Mexicans, and addressing the climate crisis. PHOTOS: Heinrich Discusses Net-Zero Housing, Home Electrification With Local, State Leaders In El Prado Senator...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) met with New Mexico solar industry leaders to hear how a recently filed solar tariff petition with the Department of Commerce (Commerce) would severely harm the state’s solar industry and the hard-working New Mexicans that support it. PHOTOS: Heinrich Meets With New Mexico Solar...

WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined Chair Kathy Castor of the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in sending a bicameral letter urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to accelerate the transition to clean energy by improving transmission planning, optimizing the cost...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is leading a group of 20 lawmakers who are calling on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to accurately assess the cost of reliance on fossil fuels, which impacts national security and the climate crisis, as the agency prepares to update its vehicle fleet. The request comes in response to a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), founder and Co-Chair of the Electrification Caucus, is leading an effort in Congress to lower energy costs and create healthier homes for New Mexico families through electrification. Today, during a Senate Climate Task Force meeting on the economic benefits of a clean energy transition,...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) sent a letter to President Joseph R. Biden urging him to employ his existing executive authorities to advance the development and widespread adoption of clean energy and energy-efficient...

WASHINGTON – Electrification Caucus Co-Chairs U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Tina Smith (D-Minn.) and U.S. Representatives Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) issued the following statement in advance of President Joe Biden releasing his fiscal year 2023 (FY23) budget proposal: We reiterate our strong commitment to...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), founder and Co-Chair of the Electrification Caucus, participated in a virtual press conference hosted by Rewiring America to discuss addressing Russia’s unjustified war in Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s global energy price hike by accelerating our transition to clean...

WASHINGTON – Wednesday, March 16, at 11:15 a.m. ET/ 9:15 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), founder and Co-Chair of the Electrification Caucus, will participate in a virtual press conference hosted by Rewiring America to discuss how we can transition to clean energy, pass climate provisions, and secure control of our own...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) and Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are welcoming $2,829,000 from the U.S. Department of Interior for Fiscal Year 2022 to accelerate cleaning up abandoned coal mines in New Mexico. This is in...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Jacky Rosen (D-N.V.) announced today that they are leading a bipartisan group of senators in a letter to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging Secretary Gina Raimondo to carefully assess the validity of a recently filed petition to expand job-killing tariffs on solar panels and cells...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, welcomed President Joe Biden’s announcement today that the White House is taking steps to ban the import of Russian oil in response to the unprovoked and unjustified war in...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 10, 2022) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, participated in a full committee hearing to examine the opportunities and challenges in using clean hydrogen. During the hearing, Senator Heinrich urged energy industry leaders and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)...

WASHINGTON (Feb. 10, 2022) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, participated in a National Parks Subcommittee hearing to review the implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA). Last year, Senator Heinrich championed GAOA into law, which fully and permanently funds...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) welcomed the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DOI) decision to return to its standard permitting process for activities on public lands, including energy development, on March 21, 2021. The senators have been urging DOI to not extend its...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, asked government officials and energy industry leaders to identify and break down current barriers that slow the use of clean energy and transportation technologies across the U.S.—especially in rural...

WASHINGTON – Today, Thursday, March 11, at 8 a.m. MT/ 10 a.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will participate in a hearing to examine the reliability, resiliency, and affordability of electric service in the U.S. amid the changing energy mix and extreme weather...