SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has appointed Julie J. Vargas to the state Supreme Court, closing the vacancy left by the Honorable Justice Judith K. Nakamura, who retired Dec. 1.
“Judge Vargas has demonstrated her quality as a consistent and conscientious jurist,” Lujan Grisham said. “She is a fair...
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Earthweek: Diary of a Changing World
Week ending Friday, December 11, 2020
La Niña Persists
U.S. forecasters predict there is a 95% chance the current moderate La Niña episode will prevail until at least March, triggering a unique set of global weather shifts. They add there is a chance it will peak in the strong range during January. While El Niños typically last just one year, La Niñas often fade, then redevelop the following year. Australian meteorologists say the ocean-cooling across the tropical Pacific can probably be linked to a cyclone-like storm that was lashing the coast of Queensland in mid-December. The deepening climate crisis is also said to be a factor in that storm and accompanying...
La Niña Persists
U.S. forecasters predict there is a 95% chance the current moderate La Niña episode will prevail until at least March, triggering a unique set of global weather shifts. They add there is a chance it will peak in the strong range during January. While El Niños typically last just one year, La Niñas often fade, then redevelop the following year. Australian meteorologists say the ocean-cooling across the tropical Pacific can probably be linked to a cyclone-like storm that was lashing the coast of Queensland in mid-December. The deepening climate crisis is also said to be a factor in that storm and accompanying...
Environmental briefs
from the Center for Biological Diversity and its newsletter Endangered Earth
JUDGE HALTS PLAN TO FRACK 60,000 ACRES IN UTAH
Thanks to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and its allies, on Dec. 11 a judge overturned the Trump Administration’s plan to lease out more than 60,000 acres of public land for fracking in northern Utah’s Uintah Basin, including areas near Dinosaur National Monument.
“This is a strong rebuke of Trump’s disastrous fracking frenzy across our public lands, which is destroying the climate, wildlife and frontline communities,” the Center’s Taylor McKinnon said. “President-elect Biden’s ban on new federal fossil fuel leasing can’t...
JUDGE HALTS PLAN TO FRACK 60,000 ACRES IN UTAH
Thanks to a lawsuit by the Center for Biological Diversity and its allies, on Dec. 11 a judge overturned the Trump Administration’s plan to lease out more than 60,000 acres of public land for fracking in northern Utah’s Uintah Basin, including areas near Dinosaur National Monument.
“This is a strong rebuke of Trump’s disastrous fracking frenzy across our public lands, which is destroying the climate, wildlife and frontline communities,” the Center’s Taylor McKinnon said. “President-elect Biden’s ban on new federal fossil fuel leasing can’t...
Navajo Nation nurse dies from COVID
On this, the next to the last day of the year, Navajo Nation nurse Raymond Joe, was taken to his final resting place after succumbing to COVID-19. KOB-TV's Nathan O'Neal reported that Joe, a 48-year-old combat veteran was among the first health care workers to draw attention to the dangers of the novel coronavirus on the Navajo Nation.
Joe's common law wife, Eugenia Johnson, said Joe was one of the few people in the region who was fluent in Navajo and as a nurse, he used to go out into the Navajo Nation, parts of Shiprock, Kirtland, and Cove to see patients.
In November, both Joe and Johnson, who is also a nurse on the Navajo Nation, contracted the virus. While she recovered, Joe got...
Joe's common law wife, Eugenia Johnson, said Joe was one of the few people in the region who was fluent in Navajo and as a nurse, he used to go out into the Navajo Nation, parts of Shiprock, Kirtland, and Cove to see patients.
In November, both Joe and Johnson, who is also a nurse on the Navajo Nation, contracted the virus. While she recovered, Joe got...
Hope arrives
COVID vaccines roll out across Gallup, Navajo Nation
When the coronavirus vaccines were distributed to Crownpoint Health Care Facility Dec. 14, it created “a lot of excitement” and “anxious feelings,” according to U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Kali Autrey, a pharmacist clinician.
But more than that, a health official at the hospital in McKinley County was compelled to have the vaccines “blessed.”
“It was beautiful,” Autrey said.
Within minutes, she volunteered to be the first to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The doses at Crownpoint were among those sent to sites around the Navajo Nation after the initial allottment was delivered to the Gallup Indian Medical...
When the coronavirus vaccines were distributed to Crownpoint Health Care Facility Dec. 14, it created “a lot of excitement” and “anxious feelings,” according to U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Kali Autrey, a pharmacist clinician.
But more than that, a health official at the hospital in McKinley County was compelled to have the vaccines “blessed.”
“It was beautiful,” Autrey said.
Within minutes, she volunteered to be the first to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
The doses at Crownpoint were among those sent to sites around the Navajo Nation after the initial allottment was delivered to the Gallup Indian Medical...
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