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The New Normalnew

The world’s climate has already changed. Now what?

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 07-15-2011 | Environment

Tags: Environment, Climate Change, Drought, Climate, Weather

Fly Over Homenew

A conflict over Air Force training flights highlights New Mexico’s uncomfortable relationship with its military legacy.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 11-18-2010 | War

Tags: Air Force, C-130, CV-22 Osprey

Drill Downnew

Love it or hate it, the oil and gas industry is as much a part of modern New Mexico as red and green chile.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 10-07-2010 | Economy

Tags: Gas, Oil, Energy

Rise of the She-Fish?new

With rising incidents of fish feminization, scientists want to know if contaminants are impacting the endangered silvery minnow in the Rio Grande.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 08-25-2010 | Environment

Tags: New Mexico, contaminants, Rio Grande, Fish and Wildlife, fish feminization, Interstate Stream Commission, silvery minnow

New Mexico's Environmental Horrors Could Lead to a Scary Sci-Fi Futurenew

In New Mexico, environmental horrors abound. Corporations influence the government's ability to regulate environmental emergencies, people who might otherwise be allies have faced off against one another in battle, and climate change is already punching its tentacles into the Southwestern landscape.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 10-29-2009 | Environment

Tags: New Mexico, oil, climate change, water, drought, overpopulation

New Mexico's Youth May be its Best Chance for Transforming its Economy -- and Futurenew

Many on the local frontlines of the green-jobs movement believe the chasm between rhetoric and reality is growing. They say the state's best hope for transformation -- environmental and economic -- may lie with its youth.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 10-01-2009 | Environment

Tags: New Mexico, alternative energy, environment, green jobs, economic issues

Will Wolves Be Saved Under New Mexico's Recovery Program?new

Under a questionable partnership, the Fish and Wildlife Service has managed to give away its statutory responsibility to recover endangered species to a consortium of agencies, allege critics of the way wolf introduction is being managed in the southwest. Wolves are being removed -- or killed -- by the very people charged with reintroducing the animals to the wild.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 07-16-2009 | Animal Issues

Tags: Fish and Wildlife Service, New Mexico, animal issues, Southwest, wolves

Power Plant Opponents in New Mexico Say it's Time to Get Over Coalnew

Proponents of the Desert Rock power plant say it will create 1,000 construction jobs and then approximately 200 permanent jobs once it's up and running. But the region already has three coal-fired power plants which are considered among the dirtiest plants in the country.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 12-18-2008 | Environment

Tags: New Mexico, energy, environment, pollution, power plants, Navajo, coal, Desert Rock, Indian reservations

Enviros Brace for Bush's Last Actsnew

The Bush administration is pushing a number of rule changes to take effect before Inauguration Day: easing restrictions on power plants, allowing factory farms to skirt the Clean Water Act and weakening toxic emissions standards for oil refineries, among other things.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 11-20-2008 | Environment

Tags: Bush administration, environment, power plants, deregulation, Clean Water Act, emissions, midnight regulations

Scientists Warn that Climate Change is Already Hitting New Mexiconew

Few people on the planet are unaware of climate change -- reducing one's carbon footprint has practically become a fashion statement. But behind the headlines and slogans, scientists are tracking the impacts global warming is already having -- and projecting what is yet to come.

Santa Fe Reporter | Laura Paskus | 08-28-2008 | Environment

Tags: New Mexico, science, environment, climate change