press releases
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) joined U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and a bipartisan group of senators in sending a letter to Senate and House Armed Services Committee leadership urging the inclusion of several provisions in the final fiscal year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to prevent and address...
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WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) released the following statement after U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the agency would refuse to extend public comment period on a resource management plan surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park while the Tribes and...
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WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) welcomed the final passage of the America’s Conservation Enhancement (ACE) Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bipartisan bill includes legislation championed by Senator Heinrich that reauthorizes the North American Wetlands Conservation Act (NAWCA) through 2025 and...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) has introduced a resolution to protect the fundamental rights of the nation’s children in the face of climate chaos’ increasingly destructive effects—which include recent raging wildfires and catastrophic hurricanes. The Children’s Fundamental Rights and Climate...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement after a federal judge in Montana ruled that William Perry Pendley is illegally heading the Bureau of Land Management: “President Trump made a big mistake when he appointed William Perry...
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WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) are requesting that the U.S. Department of the Interior extend the 2019-2020 Every Kid Outdoors pass into the 2020-2021 school year given the hurdles the pandemic has presented for students and families to accessing America’s public lands, waters, and historic...
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On our previous episode of Open Space Radio — which was part one of our Great American Outdoors Act coverage — we spoke with Happy Haynes, the executive director of Denver Parks and Recreation, about what the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act meant for access to quality parks and recreation...
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Earlier this month in Florida, President Donald Trump absurdly called himself “the great environmentalist.” That’s right. The guy, who repealed or weakened more than a hundred environmental protections, proposed unbridled oil and gas leasing on millions of acres of lands and waters, and still denies...
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A bill that would withdraw all federally-managed minerals in the Pecos watershed from future leasing or sales was introduced by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich this week. “We all have different relationships with this river, but whether you’re a fisherman or farmer or outdoor recreationist, people understand this river is the thing that ties...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) has introduced the Pecos Watershed Protection Act to protect portions of the Pecos Watershed in northern New Mexico from all mineral development. In the 1990s, a spill of toxic waste from a closed mine killed fish in the river for more than 11 miles. It took decades and millions of...
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Representatives from two opposing groups in New Mexico testified before the U.S. House Energy and Natural Resources Committee Wednesday, painting conflicting portraits of support for a bill that would see portions of the Gila River receive federal Wild and Scenic designations. The M.H. Dutch Salmon Greater Gila Wild and Scenic River...
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WASHINGTON – Today, in a key hearing to consider pending legislation, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) discussed how his legislation to designate portions of the Gila River as Wild and Scenic would permanently protect the Gila’s free-flowing segments, attract more visitors to southwestern New Mexico, and grow the outdoor...
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, delivered the following opening remarks in a Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining hearing on bills he introduced to designate portions of the Gila River as Wild and Scenic and establish Cerro de la Olla...
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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, delivered remarks on the Senate Floor to decry President Donald Trump’s destructive record on the environment and call for the removal of William Perry Pendley from his “acting” leadership role at...
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WASHINGTON – On Wednesday, September 16 at 2:30 p.m. ET/ 12:30 p.m. MT, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will participate in a Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining hearing on bills he introduced to designate portions of the Gila River as Wild and Scenic and...
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) applauded the combined $100,000 in Community Facilities Grants awarded to the Doña Ana Mutual Domestic Water Consumer Association by USDA-Rural Development to maintain reliable water...
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WASHINGTON—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 Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) urged the Trump administration to extend the period for public input and delay onsite inspections for the draft Farmington Resource Management Plan Amendment (RMPA)– which includes...
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WASHINGTON—U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Xochitl Torres Small (D-N.M.) applauded a nearly $3 million grant to the University of New Mexico (UNM) from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for research to understand historic climate...
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New Mexico’s congressional delegation commended the withdrawal of William Pendley’s nomination as director of the Bureau of Land Management but warned the original proposal he take up the post was part of a pattern by the administration of President Donald Trump to dismantle U.S. federal land management. Democrat U.S. Sens. Martin...
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WASHINGTON – 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 the White House withdrawing the nomination of William Perry Pendley to lead the Bureau of Land Management. Heinrich led the entire Democratic caucus earlier this week in a letter to...
