KUNM News Update
Roberto E. Rosales
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City Desk ABQ
Bernalillo County Commissioners Steven Michael Quezada and Walt Benson will try to get a controversial resolution on the agenda for the commission’s Tuesday meeting to allow it to revisit the process to hire a county manager.
Local News
Mason Cummings
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The Bureau of Land Management
The BLM has always leased land for things like oil and gas and grazing. Now it will sell leases for conservation, too.
Let's Talk New Mexico
J. N. Stuart
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Last summer, the U.S. Supreme Court slashed protections of many waterways and wetlands. Their decision left water advocates and experts alarmed over the potential impact on New Mexico’s streams and rivers. On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll discuss a new report labeling the state’s rivers as particularly vulnerable.
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a final rule to designate two types of PFAS chemicals as hazardous substances. The agency says it will make it easier to ensure the parties responsible for PFAS contamination pay to clean it up. In New Mexico, PFAS have been documented in rivers downstream from urban areas and in groundwater near military bases and airports. -
The U.S. Border Patrol is asserting its authority to seize cannabis shipments — including commercial, state-authorized supplies — as licensed cannabis providers file complaints that more than $300,000 worth of marijuana has been confiscated in recent months at highway checkpoints in southern New Mexico. -
The first ever Earth Day in the U.S. took place on April 22, 1970. Fast forward to 2024, with the help of many sponsors and a man with a “green” heart, Albuquerque is hosting the first statewide Earth Day Festival.
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