press releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 17, 2019) - U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) spoke at a press conference in front of the U.S. Capitol today with some of America’s leading youth climate activists, indigenous youth from the Amazon, and founder of the school strike for climate Greta Thunberg. The young people have gathered from all over the world...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 13, 2019) – The Clean Energy Jobs Act (S. 2393), introduced by U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) received a hearing on Wednesday in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy. The bill establishes a comprehensive, nationwide program at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to create a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Sept. 9, 2019) – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today introduced the American Energy Opportunity Act to provide state and local governments with voluntary tools to expedite and standardize the permitting process for distributed energy technologies, such as rooftop solar and battery...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, will participate in a hearing titled “The Fight to Save Winter: Pro Athletes for Climate Action” on Thursday, September 12 at 11:30 a.m. ET/9:30 a.m. MT. The special committee will hear from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 28, 2019) – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas issued the following statements after Xcel Energy announced that construction on the 522-megawatt Sagamore Wind Project in Roosevelt County will move forward this year. The $900 million project will be New...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representative Xochitl Torres Small announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) has awarded $750,000 to New Mexico State University’s (NMSU) College of Engineering to create the Innovation and...

A New Mexico clean energy summit this week led by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM) concluded with state, tribal, and local leaders committing to reducing carbon emissions. The summit brought together nearly 200 local officials and participants from across New Mexico, including the governor, the Albuquerque mayor, and representatives from...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (August 6, 2019) – With nearly 200 local officials and participants from across New Mexico, U.S. Senator Heinrich (D-N.M.) and City of Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, along with the State of New Mexico, Bernalillo County, Rocky Mountain Institute, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and National...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – At 3:30 p.m. MT on Tuesday, August 6, at the Albuquerque Convention Center, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and City of Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, will hold a press conference with mayors and local officials from across New Mexico for the closing of the 2019 Energy Summit: Building New Mexico’s Clean Energy...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) commended findings from an independent economic-impact analysis released Tuesday, which found that Los Alamos National Laboratory is responsible for creating 24,169 jobs in New...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Wednesday, July 17 at 11 a.m. MT/1 p.m. ET, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) will participate in the Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis' first hearing titled, “A Blueprint for Success: U.S. Climate Action at the Local Level.” The committee will discuss local efforts...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 17, 2019) – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) participated in the Senate Democrats' Special Committee on the Climate Crisis' first hearing titled, “A Blueprint for Success: U.S. Climate Action at the Local Level.” During the hearing, Senator Heinrich highlights what local governments are doing to...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich testified before the Senate on Monday about what he called the global “climate crisis,” advocating for carbon pollution pricing legislation to reduce harmful emissions. Heinrich is a co-sponsor of the American Opportunity Carbon Fee Act, a bill that would charge coal, oil and natural...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 8, 2019) – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, took to the Senate Floor to call for implementing real solutions to eliminate carbon pollution – citing comments from students in New Mexico on the urgent need to address climate change. Senator...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with U.S. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Tina Smith (D-Minn.), and Angus King (I–Maine), introduced legislation to achieve at least 50 percent renewable electricity nationwide in just 15 years...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall, ranking member on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján, Deb Haaland, and Raul Grijalva, Chairman of the House Natural...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich proposed three amendments to the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), a major defense policy bill, to protect and strengthen the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board’s (DNFSB) critical safety oversight mission at New Mexico’s Department of...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich joined 43 of their colleagues in introducing legislation in the Senate to direct the Trump administration to meet the standards established by the historic Paris Climate Agreement and to mitigate the long-term damage caused by the Trump administration’s...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After a successful meeting with New Mexico tribal leaders and U.S. Department of Interior Secretary David Bernhardt at the Chaco Culture National Historical Park (CCNHP) last week, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) is pleased to announce that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has reversed its objection to...

Who would have guessed that a Trump administration appointee with such close ties to the oil and gas industry would be willing to press pause on oil and gas leases on and near a historically and spiritually significant piece of land in New Mexico? It’s a tongue-in-cheek question, but the fact remains that few detractors of newly minted...