New Mexico

Late last week, Arizona Congressman Raúl Grijalva and New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich introduced the Clean Energy Minerals Reform Act. It would make a number of changes to the Mining Law of 1872, including the collection of royalties from hardrock mining.

The Center for Western Priorities' most recent annual spills report logged nearly 2,500 spills in the three important oil- and gas-producing Western states.

Cuts to water use along the Colorado River could be spread evenly across some southwestern states, or follow the more than a century-old priority system that currently governs water management. Those are two alternatives federal officials are considering to keep hydropower generation going at the nation’s largest reservoirs according to a draft plan released Tuesday.

That law bars efforts to misleadingly present products as having been produced by tribal members, and the changes would expand the definition of what constitutes an "Indian Product" under the law and in some cases allow for non-native labor in the making of such products.

A new report shows that allergy season is starting earlier and lasting longer across much of the U.S., including many parts of the Mountain West.

Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and New Mexico are asking the Bureau of Reclamation to pause water releases at Flaming Gorge Reservoir, which has been used to help prop up Lake Powell.

Senators from the seven states that use water from the Colorado River are convening to discuss its future. Colorado Democrat John Hickenlooper created the group as climate change and steady demand are shrinking supplies.

Despite all of the snow and cold snaps across the Mountain West, many cities are experiencing fewer nights at or below 32 degrees due to climate change. It’s a warming trend that has a wide range of impacts.

Researchers now link the death of thousands of birds migrating across New Mexico in 2020 to extreme temperature and climate conditions. The event inspired a partnership between Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico State University to study "disaster ecology."

A new database reveals that museums and universities across the U.S. still hold the remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans, despite a federal law passed more than 30 years ago to help return their remains to tribes.