Alaina Mencinger
City Hall Reporter at Albuquerque Journal
Environment/national labs reporter for the Santa Fe New Mexican. 1/2 of the ink stained wretches.
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1 week ago |
santafenewmexican.com | Alaina Mencinger
It's always a "solar roller-coaster," said Dylan Connelly, director of commercial and community solar for Affordable Solar. In February, Affordable Solar broke ground on the state's first community solar project in Valencia County. It's been a long haul; speaking at a Friday panel at the Electrify New Mexico 2025 Conference, Connelly joked he's had two children in the time between Gov.
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1 week ago |
santafenewmexican.com | Alaina Mencinger
Put away the barbecue, lock up your leaf blower and keep your car out of tall grass. New Mexico is too much of a tinderbox to take the risk this weekend. "You definitely want to do your part to create one less spark," said Todd Shoemake, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Albuquerque office.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | Alaina Mencinger
The Department of the Interior announced Thursday it would no longer require the Bureau of Land Management to produce an environmental impact statement for thousands of oil and gas leases in seven states, including New Mexico. The more than 3,200 impacted leases are spread across Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah and Wyoming and cover approximately 3.5 million acres, including several parcels in the Permian Basin.
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2 weeks ago |
santafenewmexican.com | Alaina Mencinger
The state Water Quality Control Commission is close to adopting a measure to allow for and regulate "pilot projects" to treat and reuse wastewater from the oil and gas industry in New Mexico. On Tuesday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law House Bill 137, the Strategic Water Supply Act, which will create a grant program for brackish water reuse projects. However, legislators took what's known as "produced water" from hydraulic fracturing out of the final bill.
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2 weeks ago |
santafenewmexican.com | Alaina Mencinger
The Trump administration has walked back a proposed withdrawal of the Upper Pecos watershed from mining development. An April 4 news release published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the agency had reversed two mineral leasing withdrawals on Forest Service lands in an effort to "boost production of critical minerals." It did not name the mining locations.
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