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The Trump administration recently terminated a $4.9 billion loan for the Grain Belt Express, the country’s biggest transmission grid project. Sen. Martin Heinrich, Democrat from New Mexico, says the decision is illegal. In an exclusive new interview with Canary Media, Heinrich discusses why he’s demanding that the Department of Energy account for...

PHOTOS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Today, at the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, joined Conservation Voters of New Mexico President...

PHOTOS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, hosted a roundtable discussion on how many jobs the Trump Administration will kill and how much they will raise New Mexicans' utility bills as a result of Trump’s Big, Bad Bill. Heinrich was joined by...

LAS VEGAS, N.M. — Yesterday, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, hosted a roundtable alongside New Mexico State Senator Pete Campos and other community leaders to discuss economic development opportunities in Las Vegas. The public officials and community leaders discussed the road to recovery from...

Roundtable follows Corporation for Public Broadcasting announcement that Republican budget cut requires it to wind down operations ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Media,...

President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” could “destroy” New Mexico’s clean energy industry, resulting in mass job loss, U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich warned at an event in Albuquerque Friday. The “OBBB,” signed into law July 4, will dismantle Biden-era tax credits for wind and solar power, both for businesses and households. On his first day...

Two prominent New Mexico conservation groups took advantage of the New Mexico congressional delegation’s visit home this week to honor members for their help beating back an effort to sell off public lands. Leaders of the environmental groups Conservation Voters of New Mexico and New Mexico Wild presented U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich and U.S. Rep....

The day the music dies on public radio stations could be in January, and children’s programming might be out of luck after federal funding cuts. That was the reality coming into view Thursday morning as heads of public radio and television stations gathered around the microphones at KANW. In a role reversal, station managers were interviewed by New...

A bipartisan group of senators is proposing legislation to put more of the Forest Service’s research on wood products into commercial use — and possibly reduce wildfire risks at the same time. Four lawmakers introduced the “Forest Bioeconomy Act,” which would create an office at the Forest Service devoted to connecting the agency’s research arm and...

New Mexico’s U.S. senators have secured nearly $400 million in federal funding for projects spanning from military base construction to rural fire departments, as the Senate passed its first fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills before the August recess. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján announced a combined total of approximately $395...

Top Democrats on the House and Senate energy, natural resources and agriculture committees introduced bills to halt planned firings at the Interior Department, the Forest Service and the Department of Energy. The bills, introduced Monday, aim to place a moratorium on any reduction in force (RIF) at the agencies while Congress reviews their staffing...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, alongside Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.)...

WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation alongside U.S. Senators Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and Jim Justice (R-W.Va.) to increase technology transfer at the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), allowing for...

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Food and Nutrition, Specialty Crops, Organics, and Research, and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Seedlings for Sustainable Habitat Restoration...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.) and Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) called on Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Indian Health Service (IHS) Acting Director...

WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) announced the Senate passage of the Fiscal Year 2026 (FY26) Military Construction, Veterans Affairs (VA), Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Related Agencies Appropriations Bills. With Senate passage of these bills, Heinrich secured Senate-passage of over...

Four Democratic U.S. senators on Friday slammed last month's directive by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum requiring his office to review decisions on every wind and solar power project on federal lands, saying it will lead to delays and discourage private investment as power demand rises.   The lawmakers said the directive creates a bottleneck that...

New Mexico homeowners facing skyrocketing insurance premiums and policy cancellations could benefit from federal legislation aimed at understanding how wildfires drive the insurance crisis affecting one in eight properties in the state. U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., introduced the Wildfire Insurance Coverage Study...

New Mexico United States senators introduced federal legislation Friday to expand tree nursery capacity for forest replanting and habitat restoration programs. U.S. Sens.Ben Ray Luján and Martin Heinrich, both Democrats, joined John Cornyn (R-Texas), to sponsor the bill. The legislation, if passed, would allow funding allocated by the 2022...

Heinrich championed investments to support service members & families, improve New Mexico’s military installations, expand access to health care, fight the opioid epidemic, develop the workforce & small businesses, increase prenatal screening & treatment of congenital syphilis, improve literacy rates, & more WASHINGTON — U.S....