U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) are welcoming the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) announced plans to invest $161 million from the Inflation Reduction Act in ecosystem restoration and resilience work on 21 “Restoration Landscapes” across 11 western states, including $7.6 million to restore the lower Pecos River watershed in southeastern New Mexico.
U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Chair of the Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, urged National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Administrator Alan Davidson to create responsible guardrails around Artificial Intelligence (AI) development, governance, and use.
Lt. Governor Morales today toured the Mora County Acequias with New Mexico Department of Transportation Secretary Ricky Serna and met with other leaders in the area to learn more about the fire recovery in the area.
On June 12, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) and Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) led a bicameral letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland calling to support the completion of rulemaking and implementation of the proposed “Conservation and Landscape Health” rule for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
On June 12 , U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) introduced legislation to expand rural communities’ access to clean school buses. Studies have shown that pollution levels in the cabin of existing diesel school buses are 12 times higher than outdoors.
Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham released the following statement Sunday after Rep. Christine Trujillo announced her retirement for the New Mexico House of Representatives over the weekend.
In their latest effort to safeguard the Upper Pecos Watershed from future mineral development, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) are calling on the U.S. Forest Service to outline the process by which the agency will assess the potential risk of mineral development in the Upper Pecos Watershed.
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) introduced the Banning Unlawful Machinegun Parts (BUMP) Act, legislation to prohibit the sale of bump stocks and other devices that allow semi-automatic firearms to increase their rate of fire and effectively operate as fully automatic weapons
New Mexico's death count did not exceed the upper threshold of death expectancy during the week ending May 27, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
On June 8, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) joined their bipartisan colleagues U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and others to introduce the Headwaters Protection Act