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The Elephant Butte Reservoir near Truth or Consequences, New Mexico stores Rio Grande water to be distributed to irrigation districts in Southern New Mexico and far West Texas. Credit: Martha Pskowski/Inside Climate News

Texas Sued New Mexico Over Rio Grande Water. Now the States are Fighting the Federal Government

By Martha Pskowski

Supporters of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act sing about saving the program on Sept. 22 before leaving Albuquerque, New Mexico for Washington, D.C. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Tribal Members Journey to Washington Push for Reauthorization of Radiation Exposure Compensation Act

By Noel Lyn Smith

Apache Stronghold members and supporters stopped in Gallup, New Mexico, on Aug. 18. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Apache Group is Carrying a Petition to the Supreme Court to Stop a Mine on Land Sacred to the Tribe

By Noel Lyn Smith

Residents and supporters walk southbound on New Mexico Highway 566 to the defunct uranium ore processing mill during the event on July 13 to remember the Church Rock uranium spill. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

In New Mexico, a Walk Commemorates the Nuclear Disaster Few Outside the Navajo Nation Remember

By Noel Lyn Smith

Pump jacks operate in a Permian Basin oilfield near Eddy County, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

New Mexico Debates What to Do With Oil and Gas Wastewater

By Martha Pskowski

Mike Halona, executive director of the Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources, talks about the purpose of the tribe’s energy summit on June 5 in Albuquerque. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

Navajo Summit Looks at History and Future of Tribe’s Relationship With Energy

By Noel Lyn Smith

Linemen work on a rebuild of Northwestern Energy transmissions lines in Livingston, Montana. Credit: William Campbell/Getty Images

Western States Could Make Billions Selling Renewable Energy, But They’ll Need a Lot More Regional Transmission Lines

By Wyatt Myskow

Bob Martin, who manages hydropower at Glen Canyon Dam, shows the effects of cavitation on a decommissioned turbine on Nov. 2, 2022. When air pockets enter the dam's pipes, they cause structural damage. Water managers recently discovered similar damage in a little-used set of tubes that carry water to the Colorado River. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

A Plumbing Issue at This Lake Powell Dam Could Cause Big Trouble for Western Water

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Entrances to a uranium mine are locked shut outside Ticaboo, Utah. Credit: Photo by George Frey/Getty Images

Tribes Meeting With Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Describe Harms Uranium Mining Has Had on Them, and the Threats New Mines Pose

By Noel Lyn Smith

A man looks out over the Colorado River near Page, Ariz. on Nov. 2, 2022. The seven states that manage the river are divided about how to account for the impacts of climate change in new plans about sharing its water. Credit: Alex Hager/KUNC

Colorado River States Have Two Different Plans for Managing Water. Here’s Why They Disagree

By Alex Hager, KUNC

Signs warning of health risks are posted outside the gates of an abandoned uranium mine in the community of Red Water Pond Road, N.M. Credit: The Washington Post via Getty Images

New Online Dashboard Identifies Threats Posed by Uranium Mines and Mills in New Mexico

By Noel Lyn Smith

A large solar farm off Interstate 15 in Arrolime, Nevada. Credit: Visions of America/Joseph Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

It Could Soon Get a Whole Lot Easier to Build Solar in the Western US

By Wyatt Myskow

A natural gas well site outside of Hope, in eastern New Mexico. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

New Mexico Looks to Address Increasing Aridity With Brackish and Produced Water. Experts Are ‘Skeptical’

By Wyatt Myskow

Power lines in Flagstaff, Arizona. Credit: Paul S. Howell/Liaison

SunZia Southwest Transmission Project Receives Final Federal Approval

By Emma Peterson

A malfunctioning flare at a tank battery in the New Mexico Permian Basin, photographed on Feb. 6, 2023. Incomplete combustion in a flare, as pictured, generates more emissions. Credit: WildEarth Guardians.

As Enforcement Falls Short, Many Worry That Companies Are Flouting New Mexico’s Landmark Gas Flaring Rules

By Martha Pskowski

Cattle stand in their pasture in rural Lamadera, New Mexico. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

Amid Drought, Wealthy Homeowners in New Mexico are Getting a Tax Break to Water Their Lawns

By Wyatt Myskow

In an aerial view, an oil pumpjack works in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022 in Crane, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Jayden Mitchell, youth volunteer with the Santa Clara Pueblo forestry department, plants conifer seedlings near a pond in the Santa Clara canyon floodplain. Credit: Sara Van Note

Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

By Sara Van Note

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