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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) are one step closer to getting the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act across the finish line. Today, the landmark conservation legislation was voted out of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) with bipartisan support. The...

WASHINGTON - Tomorrow, Thursday, April 7, at 2:15 p.m. ET/ 12:15 p.m. MT, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) will hold a conference call with reporters on the bipartisan Recovering America’s Wildlife Act following the business meeting before the U.S. Senate Committee on...

WASHINGTON – Last week, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) addressed the attendees of the 87th Annual North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference to highlight their bipartisan legislation, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act. For more than eight decades, the Wildlife Management Institute...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, was recently honored by Ducks Unlimited (DU) for receiving the Wetlands Conservation Achievement Award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to conservation and restoration of...

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 (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 (Feb. 3, 2022) - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho) introduced the bipartisan Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, legislation to make it easier for “Good Samaritans” such as state agencies, local governments, nonprofits, and other groups, to clean up and improve water...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, commends the New Mexico State Game Commission for upholding the state’s proud tradition of protecting public access to public waters. Today, the Commission denied five applications from landowners that would have closed public...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) issued the following statement after voting to confirm Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to lead the U.S. Department of the Interior. Today, the Senate confirmed President Joe Biden’s nominee by a vote of 51-40. “This is a proud day for New Mexico. I voted to confirm...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) delivered remarks on the Senate Floor supporting President Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of the Interior, U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.). VIDEO: Heinrich Delivers Remarks Supporting Haaland To Lead Interior [HD DOWNLOAD LINK HERE] Senator Heinrich’s...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement after voting in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to advance the nomination of President Joe Biden’s nominee for U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Congresswoman Deb Haaland (D-N.M.). The Committee voted 11 to 9 to advance Congresswoman...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is laying out a path to put Americans to work, repair public lands and infrastructure, and improve Tribal relations with President Joe Biden’s U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary nominee U.S. Representative Deb...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced President Joe Biden’s U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary nominee U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to the full committee. VIDEO: Heinrich Introduces Haaland In Interior Secretary Confirmation...

We have known for a long time that pumping unlimited groundwater from the Ogallala Aquifer is unsustainable. The future of water for eastern New Mexico communities like Clovis and Portales depends on us securing an alternative supply. That's why I have worked so hard over the last decade to support the construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural...

WASHINGTON – On Tuesday, February 23, at 9:30 a.m. ET/ 7:30 a.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will introduce President Joe Biden’s U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary nominee U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) to the full committee. The hearing will...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the first AmeriCorps alum to serve in the Senate and a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, today unveiled legislation to expand national service programs to help address the historic COVID-19 joblessness crisis by establishing a 21st Century Conservation...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on the U.S. Department of the Interior taking steps to strengthen the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) by rescinding Trump administration policies that significantly undermined the landmark...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, a New Mexico Democrat, is reintroducing three conservation bills with the hope they will gain traction under a bluer Senate and the Biden administration. Heinrich is jump-starting bills to restrict hard-rock mining in the Pecos watershed, bar mining on four federal sites in Sandoval County and designate a section of a...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee, and U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) have introduced the Buffalo Tract Protection Act, the Pecos Watershed Protection Act, and legislation to establish Cerro de la Olla Wilderness within the Río Grande del...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on President Joe Biden's recent executive action to combat the climate crisis and restore scientific integrity across the federal government: “We have known for decades that we need to act...