America’s most important conservation and recreation program will expire in less than a year unless Congress acts. For 52 years, the Land and Water Conservation…
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CVNM honors Sen. Jeff Steinborn for protecting public lands
January 24, 2018
Published in the Las Cruces Sun-News Community snapshot: Conservation Voters New Mexico presented Sen. Jeff Steinborn with the 2018 Luminaria Award for promoting and protecting the natural…
Zinke doesn’t recommend shrinking two New Mexico monuments
September 22, 2017
By Heath Haussamen | NMPolitics.net U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is recommending no reduction in the size of two New Mexico national monuments, but he is…
Monument memo unsettles advocates
September 22, 2017
By Andrew Oxford | Santa Fe New Mexican A leaked Interior Department memo on the future of several major national monuments around the country surprised…
Attacks on our critical environmental safeguards by Trump and his administration have been fast and furious with no end in sight. But CVNM members and…
Land Commissioner Dunn attacking national monuments
June 29, 2017
This is outrageous. State Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn has asked the Trump administration to ignore New Mexicans and rush through a review to shrink our…
Our national monuments: what we’re working to protect
June 27, 2017
Here in New Mexico, the spectacular Rio Grande del Norte and Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks national monuments are important because they celebrate our shared cultural heritage…
Bill to bring back oil and gas pollution penalty moves forward
February 24, 2017
By Laura Paskus | NM Political Report Sen. Richard Martinez, D-Española, presented a bill to the Senate Conservation Committee Thursday that would restore a state…
Nuclear Is Renewable Energy?
February 23, 2017
Published by KRWG Commentary: Santa Fe, N.M. – Today, the House Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee debated Nuclear Energy as Renewable Energy (HB 406, Brown)….
By Robert Nott | Santa Fe New Mexican The Senate Education Committee has unanimously tabled a bill that would have established a new endowment for…