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Hydrogen Hub Act tabled

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Clean energy and how to create it continues to be a topic of discussion among government entities. The state’s representatives began discussing another option during the second session of the 55th New Mexico Legislature.

On Jan. 25, Gov. Michelle Lujan-Grisham announced the introduction of House Bill 4, the Hydrogen...

Providing for the medically underserved

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Gallup Clinic boosts specialty care access in the Four Corners

The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center opened a multi-specialty medical clinic at 205 E. Nizhoni Ave. last March. The clinic, which serves both adult and pediatric patients, provides specialty care services such as  gynecology oncology, maternal fetal medicine, women’s ultrasound, dermatology, pediatric cardiology, urogynecology, vascular, and genetic testing, and counseling services. There is also a COVID testing center for pre-procedure or surgical patients. However, the center is not offering COVID vaccines or COVID testing for the general population at this time.

“In our state, in general...

Domestic violence shelter to get a new building

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MOLD, ROOF ISSUES PLAGUE CURRENT LOCATION

McKinley County commissioners voted to approve over $1.5 million for a new shelter for battered families at their Jan. 11 meeting The McKinley County Domestic Violence Shelter for Battered Families has been serving county residents for 43 years.

“The $1.5 million is for the design of a new emergency shelter to meet all of our community needs,” the non-profit organization’s executive director Emily Ellison explained. “We used our data and made a list of on average how many people need shelter at a given point [and] that showed that we needed to expand our emergency shelter building.”

Ellison said that ideally, each shelter should be...

Four Corners Detox Recovery Center celebrates first anniversary

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facility is providing greatly needed substance abuse treatment services

Four Corners Detox Recovery Center, which is providing much needed substance abuse treatment programs to the Gallup area, is celebrating its one-year anniversary.

FCDRC opened in Dec. 2020 offering medically managed detoxification services to men and women and added a short-term Residential Treatment Program in June in order to meet significant demand in the community. All FCDRC programming emphasizes bridging traditional cultural practices with evidence-based treatment through the use of peer support and local staff.


The latest effort by FCDRC has been to create the Four Corners Rural Health Care Services...

Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World

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Week ending Friday, January 28, 2022

A Toxic World

A new study suggests chemical pollution has become so pervasive that it has pushed Earth outside the relatively stable environment of the past 10,000 years. Beyond the widespread use of plastics, researchers say they are also highly concerned about 350,000 synthetic chemicals, including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics. “There has been a fifty-fold increase in the production of chemicals since 1950 and this is projected to triple again by 2050,” research team member Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez of Sweden’s Stockholm Resilience Center said. “Shifting to a circular economy is really important. That means changing...

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