WASHINGTON, April 24 -- Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release: PHOENIX - Today, Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) took action and pushed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to grant a fuel waiver for Maricopa County, as well as portions of Pinal and Yavapai Counties, in order to lower gas prices in Arizona. Rep. Gallego states in a letter to the agency that, "without a waiver, retailers will need to draw down their gasoline supplies to comply with summer CBG [Cleaner   more

WASHINGTON, April 24 -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory issued the following news: Employees from Los Alamos National Laboratory joined forces with The Food Depot to combat food insecurity across Northern New Mexico, donating $70,738 as well as 7,509 pounds of food. That works out to 289,000 meals for people facing food insecurity in the counties of Colfax, Harding, Los Alamos, Mora, Rio Arriba, San Miguel, Santa Fe, Taos and Union. Additionally, 37 volunteers ro  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 24 -- Santa Fe Institute issued the following news release: SFI External Professor Tim Kohler (Washington State University) will be delivering the Linda S. Cordell Lecture through the School for Advanced Research (SAR) on April 28, 2024, at the New Mexico History Museum. In his lecture, Kohler, who recently co-led an SFI working group on "Inequality over the long-term," will offer an archaeological account of wealth disparity worldwide, including the pre-Hispanic So  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, April 24 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following statement on April 23, 2024: * * * The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced last Thursday morning a final new public lands rule that puts conservation and restoration of public lands on equal footing with energy development and mining. WildEarth Guardians offered the following statement in response to the final public lands rule: We are grateful for the new public lands conservation rule, and hopeful it will have   more