McKinley, Cibola and San Juan county’s eateries still restricted
SANTA FE — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the state’s emergency public health order will be amended to permit limited outdoor dine-in services for most of the state beginning May 27.
Dine-in services inside restaurants and bars remain...
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New Mexico delegation wants to waive cost-sharing for COVID-19 response
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senators Tom Udall, D-N.M., and Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., Deb Haaland, D-N.M., and Xochitl Torres-Small, D-N.M., are calling on Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor to waive all cost-sharing requirements for assistance under President Trump’s Major Disaster Declaration for the State of New Mexico, 4529-DR, for the state’s response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.
“As detailed in Governor Lujan Grisham’s letter, the State of New Mexico has diverted significant resources and funding, including tens of millions of dollars of emergency funding, to mobilize a rapid and...
“As detailed in Governor Lujan Grisham’s letter, the State of New Mexico has diverted significant resources and funding, including tens of millions of dollars of emergency funding, to mobilize a rapid and...
Heinrich urges FCC to ensure equal internet access for Tribes
Senator Martin Heinrich is leading the charge to ensure that rural Tribal communities have equal access to the internet.
At a time when people are being repeatedly reminded to stay in their homes, work from home, go to school from home, attend meetings from home and order online, the senator led 17 Senate Democrats in a letter calling on Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai to request that the FCC extend the 2.5 GHz Rural Tribal Priority Window by 180 days.
Extending this deadline would allow Tribal governments more time to secure access to unassigned spectrum over tribal lands suitable for mobile coverage and broadband services.
Because Tribes have historically lacked...
At a time when people are being repeatedly reminded to stay in their homes, work from home, go to school from home, attend meetings from home and order online, the senator led 17 Senate Democrats in a letter calling on Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai to request that the FCC extend the 2.5 GHz Rural Tribal Priority Window by 180 days.
Extending this deadline would allow Tribal governments more time to secure access to unassigned spectrum over tribal lands suitable for mobile coverage and broadband services.
Because Tribes have historically lacked...
Resource management plan comment period extended
FARMINGTON — Following meetings with leaders of the Navajo Nation and the All Pueblo Council of Governors, Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt, in close coordination with Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Tara Sweeney, directed the Bureau of Land Management and Bureau of Indian Affairs to extend the comment period for the Farmington Mancos-Gallup Draft Resource Management Plan Amendment and associated Environmental Impact Statement. The public will now have until Sept. 25 to provide comments.
The Draft RMPA/EIS, which was released on Feb. 28, is analyzing resource management issues for lands in San Juan, Rio Arriba, McKinley, and Sandoval counties. The Draft RMPA/EIS...
The Draft RMPA/EIS, which was released on Feb. 28, is analyzing resource management issues for lands in San Juan, Rio Arriba, McKinley, and Sandoval counties. The Draft RMPA/EIS...
Udall brings nature to Capitol Hill
New Mexico senator works to protect America’s lands, water
WASHINGTON, D. C. —U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M., along with the Center for Western Priorities and the Sierra Club, kicked off a “Road to 30 Virtual Tour” of states across the West May 19 to emphasize the importance of his legislation to set a national goal of protecting 30 percent of America’s lands and water by 2030, known as the 30x30 Resolution to Save Nature.
In the kick-off event, Udall joined Dr. Enric Sala, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence and one of the world’s top researchers on ecosystem recovery, and Lena Moffitt, senior director of Sierra Club’s Our Wild America Campaign, to discuss...
WASHINGTON, D. C. —U.S. Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M., along with the Center for Western Priorities and the Sierra Club, kicked off a “Road to 30 Virtual Tour” of states across the West May 19 to emphasize the importance of his legislation to set a national goal of protecting 30 percent of America’s lands and water by 2030, known as the 30x30 Resolution to Save Nature.
In the kick-off event, Udall joined Dr. Enric Sala, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence and one of the world’s top researchers on ecosystem recovery, and Lena Moffitt, senior director of Sierra Club’s Our Wild America Campaign, to discuss...
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