Environment

NWS: Today’s High Near 27; Tonight’s Low Around 9

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The National Weather Service forecasts today’s high in Los Alamos near 27 with a total daytime snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Tonight’s low around 9 with wind chill values as low as zero. Courtesy/NWS

The National Weather Service forecasts a very cold air mass will settle in overnight and result in well below normal low temperatures, including a low in Los Alamos around 9 tonight with wind chill values as low as zero. Courtesy/NWS
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NM Transportation Secretary: $989 Million For Rest Stops

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La Bajada rest stop about 20 miles south of Santa Fe. Photo by Robert Stivers

By ROBERT NOTT

New Mexican

 

Lynne Uhring said rest stops are much more than a place to stop to stretch your legs or use the bathroom. 

Surveying a series of historical plaques honoring women who contributed to New Mexico’s history at the La Bajada rest stop about 20 miles south of Santa Fe, the Albuquerque resident said the quality of these facilities says a lot about the state.

“We’re telling ourselves that tourism is a really important part of New Mexico’s economy,” she said. 

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Udall: ‘It’s Past Time We Confront The Climate And Nature Crises’

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By TOM UDALL
U.S. Senator

For our survival, we can look to my father’s vision as an alternative to our current path.

In his 1963 book The Quiet Crisis, my father, former Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, sounded the alarm about the creeping destruction of nature. “Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet,” he wrote. “By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.”

Interior Secretary Stewart Udall

Today would have been Stewart Udall’s 100th birthday. And 57 years after

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Bill To Incentivize Purchase Of Electric Motor Vehicles Advances

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HOUSE DEMOCRATS News:

SANTA FE – House Bill 217, Electric Vehicle Income Tax Credit, has passed the House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee.

House Bill 217, sponsored by Rep. Jim Trujillo (D-Santa Fe), Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena (D-Mesilla), Rep. Pat Woods (R-Broadview), Rep. Javier Martinez (D-Albuquerque), and Rep. Marian Matthews (D-Albuquerque), provides incentives to New Mexican consumers to purchase electric vehicles and to install at-home charging units.

House Bill 217 also includes a double credit amount for low income consumers and a price cap for these credits Read More

Benson: Gus, The Glow-In-The-Dark Gopher

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By JODY BENSON
Chair, Pajarito Group of the Sierra Club

Sunday, Feb. 2, demarcates the point in the calendar halfway between the winter solstice and spring equinox.

In simpler times, (prior to anthropogenic green-house gases causing climate change with the resulting predictability of drought, fires, floods, and species extinction, but the rarely predictable weather) on this day—Groundhog Day—it would be up to the groundhog to partner with his shadow to determine the weather for the next six weeks.

Here in New Mexico, as many of you already know, we do not have groundhogs. Rather we have gophers. Read More