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Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation on Thursday announced they’d introduced a bill that would prohibit uranium mining throughout the Chama Basin Watershed, after a Canadian company earlier this year sought federal permits to conduct exploratory drilling. The Chama Basin Watershed Protection Act, sponsored by U.S. Senators Martin...

New Mexico’s congressional delegation, led by Sen. Martin Heinrich, demands answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after military GPS jamming allegedly caused a medical plane crash, killing four crew members and igniting a 32,000-acre wildfire that cost taxpayers $37.7 million. Just before midnight May 13, a medical flight left Roswell for...

New Mexico’s two Democratic United States senators, along with U.S. Sen Dick Durban (D-Ill.) led a group of 34 senators in a letter Tuesday that expresses “strong opposition” to President Donald Trump’s recent decision to greatly reduce the footprints of two national monuments in Utah. Trump on July 13 signed a pair of executive orders to shrink...

U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and the entire New Mexico congressional delegation are demanding answers from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after revelations that a Department of Defense GPS jamming exercise contributed to a medical plane crash that killed four crew members and ignited a wildfire that burned nearly 32,000 acres. In a letter...

The top Senate Democrats on two committees that oversee the Interior Department have asked the agency’s inspector general to investigate whether Interior officials wrongly concealed information about President Donald Trump’s troubled renovation of the Lincoln Memorial’s reflecting pool. The Interior Department had publicly blamed damage to the...

New Mexico Sen. Martin Heinrich and a group of Democratic colleagues are calling on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to crack down on prediction markets letting people bet on wildfires and other natural disasters. The letter notes that Polymarket accepted more than $1.2 million in bets on last year’s Palisades and Eaton fires in the Los...

LAS CRUCES — If Project Jupiter is unable to clear its next big regulatory hurdle — obtaining a state air quality permit to establish a private microgrid — the massive artificial intelligence data center might have another power option under new legislation. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., introduced a bill Monday that aims to prevent utility...

The top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is promising an aggressive legislative agenda to address rising electricity demand from data centers should his party regain power next year. In the latest episode of the POLITICO Energy podcast, Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) teased legislation he is releasing Monday designed to...

The US Department of Justice (DoJ) appeared to ignore a Friday deadline set by Raúl Torrez, the attorney general of New Mexico, to share information about the abuse of girls at a remote ranch formerly owned by the disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Torrez’s office asked the DoJ in February for unredacted files after he reopened a...

Senate Democrats are calling on the Trump administration to restore funding for hundreds of energy projects that were canceled "based solely" on political grounds, calling the terminations "an attempt to punish perceived political enemies." In a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Office of Management and Budget Director Director Russell...

Concerns are growing about a shortage of staff at the New Mexico Veterans Affairs, with VA officials telling Senator Martin Heinrich's office that they are working to fill 300 vacant positions at the facility, to include positions ranging from janitorial staff to administrators to medical positions. The VA told Senator Heinrich there were 2,926...

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act has become law, marking a major bipartisan effort to address housing affordability by expanding supply, lowering barriers to construction and limiting the role of large investors in the single-family housing market. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico said one of the law's most significant provisions is...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), along with local Indigenous tribes and pueblos, is urging Republican senators to restrain online gambling apps, saying the unregulated platforms pose an “existential threat” to tribal gaming rights and sovereignty. Heinrich on Friday sent a letter to Republican chairmen of two U.S. Senate committees that are...

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández on Thursday introduced legislation that would reverse rate cuts for veterans’ home healthcare services and require congressional notification of any future reductions. Between 2025 and 2026, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs slashed reimbursement rates for home health aide...

SANTA FE — New Mexico’s push to obtain unredacted records related to Jeffrey Epstein took center stage on Capital Hill on Wednesday. During a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., pushed director of national intelligence nominee Jay Clayton to commit to providing information requested by New Mexico...

The Department of Energy would create a program to collect organisms from “unique locations” and form an artificial intelligence-led database to advance research on curing cancer and other diseases under new legislation from Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). The Homestake AI Act, led by Rounds and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), co-chairs of the Senate AI...

Democrats are eager to accelerate clean energy infrastructure development and the jobs that come along with it — and a bipartisan deal on permitting reform is a big piece of that puzzle. But, they’re warning, if those talks fall apart, the blame is squarely on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet. Democrats said Tuesday that communications with the...

President Donald Trump on Monday signed orders to shrink two national monuments in Utah by more than a million acres each, potentially opening up vast wilderness and sacred tribal lands to exploration for minerals, oil and gas. The orders reduce the size of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument from about 1.87 million acres to about 181,500...

President Trump on July 13 signed a proclamation reducing the size of two national monuments in Utah by nearly 3 million acres combined, leaving them at a fraction of their originally designated size. Under his newly signed order, Trump reduced Bears Ears National Monument to approximately 121,000 acres and Grand Staircase–Escalante National...

New Mexico’s congressional delegation had a lot to say last week on the opioid overdose and fentanyl crises gripping the state, notably demanding answers in an unfolding scandal in which federal authorities allowed massive amounts of fentanyl to be sold here. In a Monday letter to Terrance Cole, the administrator of the Drug Enforcement...