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Government officials from New Mexico and the Navajo Nation were among those working through the weekend to try to understand and respond to the Environmental Protection Agency’s inadvertent triggering of the spill of an estimated 3 million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River last week. Continue Reading
Drought conditions still persist in New Mexico, and despite temporary bumps in flows, the state’s rivers are still experiencing lower-than-normal flows. Continue Reading
Will the Gold King Mine spill spread heavy metal contaminants that will settle in the river and irrigation ditches? NMSU is working to find out. Continue Reading
Exxon had its Valdez, BP had its Deepwater Horizon and now the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has its Animas River disaster with which to contend. Continue Reading
We have an opportunity to restore the health of the Colorado River and its tributaries, including the San Juan River in New Mexico. Continue Reading
Farmers on the Navajo Nation continue to have problems in the wake of the recent spill of 3 million gallons of toxic waste into the Animas River. Continue Reading
While the Colorado governor drank water from the Animas River on Wednesday to demonstrate that conditions are improving, downstream, people on the Navajo Nation continue to deal with the very real effects of an environmental disaster. Continue Reading
We’ve already altered the planet. But scientists say there’s still a window, even if one that’s rapidly closing, to act. Continue Reading
Breaking the drought requires more than a handful of rainstorms, even big storms. Continue Reading
How does a community built on doing one thing well foster economic change and tenable growth? This community is beginning to form an answer of its own. Continue Reading
The EPA said on Friday — one of the final days of the Obama Administration — that it won’t compensate Navajo farmers and others who suffered damages resulting from the 2015 spill. Continue Reading
State Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has attempted to “deflect, downplay and minimize” the extent of damages to public health and the environment following the Gold King Mine spill. Continue Reading
From the Navajo Nation to Hobbs, from Las Cruces to Albuquerque and Santa Fe — in other words, all over New Mexico — people read NMPolitics.net’s articles and joined our discussions last year. Continue Reading
There were Comanches, Apaches, Pueblo, Diné (Navajo), and members of many more nations. Hundreds strong, the people marched, some attired in traditional dress and pounding drums. Continue Reading
Christopher Columbus is being laid to rest on Monday in Albuquerque. For the first time Duke City residents will celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day. Continue Reading