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New Mexico State Land Trusts Advisory Board announces upcoming public meeting
Agencies

The New Mexico State Land Trusts Advisory Board is scheduled to hold a public meeting on Thursday, October 10, 2024, starting at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will take place at New Mexico State University, Gerald Thomas Hall in Las Cruces, NM. Participants can also attend via audio and video conference.


Maggie Toulouse Oliver testifies on U.S. election confidence ahead of 2024
Agencies

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver addressed the U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on House Administration during a hearing titled “American Confidence in Elections: Looking Ahead to the 2024 General Election.” The session aimed to tackle the declining public confidence in election processes and outcomes.


Senate Candidate Domenici: migrant parole program is 'gross misuse of executive power that ignores the bigger problems caused by an open border'
Agencies

Nella Domenici, a U.S. Senate Candidate in New Mexico, criticized a migrant parole program for "inadmissible aliens" from Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela and Nicaragua (CHNV) under the Biden Administration as a "gross misuse of executive power." Domenici conveyed her statement to the New Mexico Sun on May 16.


Land commissioner Garcia Richard: 'This program has proven that we can require companies to clean up after themselves'
Agencies

The State Land Office has chronicled more than 200 inactive oil and natural gas wells in New Mexico that have been plugged.


State invests in funds run by firms who “may be boycotting” oil and gas
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The state’s pension investments in funds with reputations of being averse to oil and gas in New Mexico is rankling industry-aligned lawmakers, who point to the outsized footprint the sector has on the state’s economy.


New Mexico continues clean energy push as solar panel supplier China ramps up coal production to meet shortages
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Power shortages across many provinces have forced the Chinese government to order its coal mines to produce as much coal as possible to prepare for winter.


'Encouraged': Lujan commends Biden's plans to block new oil or gas drilling in Chaco Culture National Historical Park 'to protect this very sacred place'
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The Biden administration recently announced plans to block any new oil or gas leasing around Chaco Culture National Historical Park for the next two years.