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Attack of the killer tomatoes! FDA warns of salmonella-infected tomatoes in the Southwest	Tom Philpott	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
What's next, tainted buns? In yet another blow to the burger, tomatoes have joined beef and lettuce as star players in that booming industrial-food genre, the disease-outbreak drama. This one involves tomatoes that carry what the FDA calls 'an uncommon strain' of salmonella called Saintpaul. Some 57 people have come down with salmonellosis in New Mexico and Texas, involving 17 hospitalizations, and the FDA is investigating salmonellosis cases in Arizona, Col ...
Topics: food, Food and Drug Administration, health, industrial ag, New Mexico, Texas (all these topics)

Udall the right moves Senate race takes shape in New Mexico	Kate Sheppard	05 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This got lost in the flap over the Climate Security Act yesterday, but via Politico, on Tuesday night Rep. Steve Pearce narrowly won the Republican Senate primary in New Mexico. He beat out Rep. Heather Wilson by a margin of 51 to 49 percent in the contest to see who will replace GOP Sen. Pete Domenici, who is retiring for health reasons. Wilson was seen as the more moderate of the two candidates, though she has an overwhelmingly negative voting record in the House ...
Topics: elections, Muckraker, New Mexico, news, politics, state politics, US Senate (all these topics)

Dry, Dry Again How three Southwestern cities are changing		13 May 2008	Grist Feature
For more on Southwest cities see our full feature on sustainability initiatives underway in Phoenix. Scan any list of "green U.S. cities" for winners from the Southwest, and you'll find a geographical void. Sure, a liberal-leaning place like Austin or Santa Fe or Boulder might sneak onto the list, but in general, there's a dearth of entries from this sun-drenched region. And that's troubling, as Southwest cities tend ...
Topics: green building, Nevada, New Mexico, placemaking, Smartish Cities, special series, sprawl, Texas, urban planning (all these topics)

Now We've Heard Udall Green groups announce support for Senate campaigns		24 Apr 2008	News
Posted at 1:00 PM on 24 Apr 2008 A coalition of large green groups has pledged to support Mark Udall, Tom Udall, and Jeanne Shaheen in their campaigns to become senators in 2008. Colorado Representative Mark Udall and his cousin, New Mexico Representative Tom Udall, will run for Senate seats in their respective states; Shaheen is the former governor of New Hampshire, and will run there. All three are Democrats. The green g ...
Topics: Colorado, elections, environmental movement, League of Conservation Voters, New Hampshire, New Mexico, news, politics, Sierra Club, state politics, US Senate (all these topics)

If you build it, they will come Growing solar industry depends on key tax credit that will expire this year	Adam Browning	22 Jan 2008	Gristmill
Advocates talk a lot about how renewable energy is not just good for the environment, but good for the economy as well. And here is some real-world proof: New Mexico, with strong leadership by Gov. Richardson, PRC Commissioners Lujan and Marks, and many others, has done more than most to establish the full suite of policies necessary to build a solar market. And the reward? Schott AG is investing $100 million in a new manufacturing facility outside of Albuquerque. It w ...
Topics: business, economy, energy, New Mexico, renewable energy, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact		23 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
All Pact and Ready to Go Six Western states, two Canadian provinces agree to regional climate pact Yesterday, the leaders of six Western states and two Canadian provinces agreed to their own regional climate pact, aiming to cut greenhouse-gas emissions to 15 percent below 2005 levels by 2020. The Western Climate Initiative ...
Topics: Arizona, British Columbia, California, Canada, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, Utah, Washington (all these topics)

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Crappiness Navajo nation at odds over coal-plant plan		27 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Crappiness Navajo nation at odds over coal-plant plan Members of the Navajo nation are at odds over a plan to build a $3 billion, 1,500-megawatt coal-fired power plant on reservation land in New Mexico. Tribal leaders say the plant -- whose juice would go to Las Vegas and Phoenix -- will generate $50 million in much-needed annual revenue and create ...
Topics: climate, coal, energy, environmental justice, New Mexico, news, Texas (all these topics)

If At First You Don't Secede Five western states form regional climate-change partnership		27 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
If At First You Don't Secede Five western states form regional climate-change partnership Citing a federal leadership void, the governors of five western U.S. states have formed a regional partnership to cut greenhouse gases and fight climate change. The Western Regional Climate Action Initiative, which inc ...
Topics: Arizona, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California, climate, climate change mitigation, New Mexico, news, Oregon, politics, state politics, Washington (all these topics)

The Land of Electric Enchantment Tesla Motors to build electric-car plant in New Mexico		22 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
The Land of Electric Enchantment Tesla Motors to build electric-car plant in New Mexico In April, electric-car start-up Tesla Motors will break ground on a manufacturing plant in Albuquerque, which beat out Flagstaff, Ariz., and Pittsburg, Calif., for the honor. The plant will churn out 10,000 WhiteStar sedans a year starting in 2009 -- "zero-emission" ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, cars, electric vehicles, New Mexico, news, placemaking, renewable energy (all these topics)

Reserving the right: The Navajo protest at Desert Rock Navajo protest third coal-fired plant on reservation land	Kate Sheppard	22 Dec 2006	Gristmill
Members of the Navajo Nation and their supporters have been blockading the site of a proposed coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico for more than a week now, hoping to halt construction of what they believe will be a social and ecological disaster.If completed, the Desert Rock Power Plant will cover 600 acres in the largest American Indian reservation in the nation, and it will be the third coal-fired plant on Navajo land. The protesters have been camped a ...
Topics: coal, energy, New Mexico (all these topics)

What?! I've Always Been a Fan of Wilderness! Bush protects wildlands in New Mexico, New England		15 Dec 2006	Daily Grist
What?! I've Always Been a Fan of Wilderness! Bush protects wildlands in New Mexico, New England Back in 2004, the Bush administration tried to clear the way for energy drilling next to the nation's largest Boy Scout camp in Valle Vidal, N.M. The drilling never commenced, in large part thanks to resistance from ranchers, hunters, environmentalists, 17 local governments, three chambers of commerce, all of the state ...
Topics: New England, New Mexico, news, wilderness (all these topics)

Reps Gone Wild House approves new wilderness areas in California, Oregon, and Idaho		25 Jul 2006	Daily Grist
Reps Gone Wild House approves new wilderness areas in California, Oregon, and Idaho The U.S. House yesterday unanimously approved bills that would create over 1,000 square miles of new wilderness areas and protect 47 miles of rivers in California, Oregon, and Idaho. A bill to ban drilling in New Mexico's Valle Vidal also passed. All of the bills are compromises hammered out over several years, inv ...
Topics: California, Idaho, New Mexico, news, Oregon, wilderness (all these topics)

When It Uraniums, It Pours New nuke-waste plan follows license for new nuclear facility		28 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
When It Uraniums, It Pours New nuke-waste plan follows license for new nuclear facility The U.S. government could store nuclear waste for up to 25 years at interim sites on federal land (including national forests) under a new proposal by Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.). Over 50,000 tons of radioactive waste sit at nuclear power plants awaiting transfer to the proposed Yucca Mountain disposal site in Nevada -- which wo ...
Topics: Nevada, New Mexico, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

Can You Fear Me Now? Scientists plot to warn future generations about dangers of nuclear site		04 May 2006	Daily Grist
Can You Fear Me Now? Scientists plot to warn future generations about dangers of nuclear site A thousand or so years from now, a huge underground salt mine in Carlsbad, N.M., will collapse and bury the tons of radioactive, plutonium-covered detritus from nuclear-weapons production that are stored within. But the plutonium will be exceedingly toxic for another 249,000 years. How to make sure nobody digs it up 500 generations ...
Topics: New Mexico, news, nuclear power (all these topics)

SWOP and Go Tomasita Gonz�lez, environmental-justice organizer, answers readers' questions		10 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tomasita Gonz�lez, of SouthWest Organizing Project. Albuquerque and Santa Fe, and probably other cities and towns in New Mexico, are seeing lots of development of housing for new residents. What are the environmental implications? How seriously is the water supply strained? Are underprivileged or minority communities affected?�� -- Mark Stephen Caponigro, New York, N.Y. Thanks for the question ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, New Mexico, politics, Poverty and the Environment, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

Gonz�lez in 60 Seconds Tomasita Gonz�lez, environmental-justice organizer, answers Grist's questions		06 Mar 2006	InterActivist
Tomasita Gonz�lez. What work do you do? I work as a community organizer at SouthWest Organizing Project, based in Albuquerque, N.M. What does your organization do? For over a quarter century, SWOP has worked to build an environmental-justice movement in disenfranchised, working, and people-of-color communities. In the '90s, we sought to challenge the mainstream "Group of Ten" ...
Topics: environmental justice, InterActivist, interview, New Mexico, politics, Poverty and the Environment, waste, water conflicts (all these topics)

The Revolution Will Be Prefaced With a White Paper New Mexico senators lay groundwork for federal global-warming bill		03 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
The Revolution Will Be Prefaced With a White Paper New Mexico senators lay groundwork for federal global-warming bill Could the somnolent federal Leviathan finally be waking to the danger heralded so long by state and local Lilliputians? Could that metaphor be more baroque? New Mexico's senators say they will introduce a bill this spring in the Senate that would mandate action on global warming. Sens. Pete Domenici (R) ...
Topics: climate, New Mexico, news, politics (all these topics)

Bada-Bingaman! New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman chats about global warming and the heated climate around the energy bill	Amanda Griscom Little	15 Jul 2005	Main Dish
He may hail from an energy state out West, and he may be a soft-spoken moderate, but Jeff Bingaman, Democratic senator from New Mexico and ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has joined the sparsely populated ranks of members of Congress pushing for real progress on climate change. Sen. Jeff Bingaman. Photo: Le ...
Topics: climate, energy, New Mexico, politics (all these topics)

Ay, Chihuahua! New drilling approved for New Mexico's Otero Mesa		25 Jan 2005	Daily Grist
Ay, Chihuahua! New drilling approved for New Mexico's Otero Mesa The Bureau of Land Management yesterday made the final decision to open nearly 2 million acres of Chihuahuan desert grassland in southern New Mexico to oil and gas drilling. The Bush administration insists that drilling in the area, known as Otero Mesa, won't be a "free-for-all," as the BLM's plan calls f ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, New Mexico (all these topics)

How Much for the Whole State? Mining Plan Raises Questions About Bush Political Contributor		11 Mar 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Bureau of Land Management, mining and drilling, New Mexico, political groups (all these topics)

Party Favors Bush drilling plan ticks off many New Mexicans and tickles GOP donors pink	Amanda Griscom	10 Mar 2004	Muckraker
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is facing off against the Department of Interior and its Bureau of Land Management over a plan to allow oil and gas drilling on his state's pristine Otero Mesa -- an expanse of desert grassland which the governor, with a touch of dramatic flair, has called "the West's ANWR." Don't mesa 'round with New Mexico. Photo: Nathan Newcomer, N ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Bureau of Land Management, Department of Interior, energy, environmental non-government organizations, land stewardship, Muckraker, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics (all these topics)

Southwest Passage New Mexico Passes Renewable-Energy Bills		05 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Southwest Passage New Mexico Passes Renewable-Energy Bills New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) yesterday celebrated the passage of a remarkable package of progressive energy bills, with the vocal support of a broad coalition including utilities, environmentalists, ranchers, and consumers. The centerpiece is a new law stating that all investor-owned electrical utilities in the state must gen ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, energy, New Mexico, politics, renewable energy (all these topics)

The Minnow Would Be Lost Senator's Plan Would Move Endangered Fish to Wetter Habitat		13 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
The Minnow Would Be Lost Senator's Plan Would Move Endangered Fish to Wetter Habitat The New Mexico habitat of the silvery minnow, an endangered fish, too often goes dry, so Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) has come up with an unusual plan: relocate the fish to wetter territory. The minnow, which lives primarily in the Rio Grande River south of Albuquerque, has been the subject of substantial ...
Topics: marine life, New Mexico, politics, rivers and watersheds, wildlife (all these topics)

Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico		11 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Natural Gas, Unnatural Allies Unlikely Coalition Opposes Bush's Plan to Drill in New Mexico New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is leading an improbable coalition of enviros, ranchers, hunters, and property-rights activists in a fight against the Bush administration's plans to drill for natural gas in the Otero Mesa area of New Me ...
Topics: Bill Richardson, Department of Interior, elections, energy, New Mexico, oil and gas drilling, politics, West, wilderness (all these topics)

State of the Art		02 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
State of the Art One hundred years ago, progressives believed that states were laboratories of democracy, small-scale testing grounds for innovative policies. While the civil-rights struggle cast that view into disfavor, it may be on its way to a renaissance, led by forward-thinking state leaders concerned about the environment. Spurred by the federal governme ...
Topics: air pollution, California, green living, Maryland, New Mexico, politics, pollution and waste (all these topics)

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