EUGENE, Oregon, May 13 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on May 12, 2026: * * * NM Water Commission caves to industry, will make rule reversing 11-month-old fracking wastewater discharge ban Today, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) accepted a rulemaking petition filed by an oil and gas industry-led organization that would begin the process to create a rule allowing oil and gas wastewater--called "produced water"--to be discharged to  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- The U.S. Air Force issued the following news: * * * NMED, DAF verbally agree to collaboration that advances PFAS cleanup at Cannon AFB * SANTA FE, N.M. (AFNS) - The New Mexico Environment Department and the U.S. Department of the Air Force, May 12, announced a verbal agreement to establish a collaborative groundwater-sampling framework to support ongoing PFAS investigation and clean-up activities at Cannon Air Force Base in Curry County. Under the verbal agreement, N  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 13 -- The New Mexico Department of Environment issued the following news release on May 12, 2026: * * * NMED, DAF verbally agree to collaboration that advances PFAS cleanup at Cannon AFB Interagency collaboration will fast-track environmental response * The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the U.S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) today announced a verbal agreement to establish a collaborative groundwater sampling framework to support ongoing PFAS inve  more

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, May 12 -- The University of New Mexico posted the following news: * * * Students lead UNM effort to recover food, reduce waste and support basic needs * At The University of New Mexico, students are leading a growing effort to recover surplus food, support their peers and reduce waste, all at the same time. Food waste is one of the largest contributors to landfill emissions in the United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. At UNM, student  more

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- The following federal patents were awarded to inventors in Washington. *** System and Method for Large Language Model With Integrated Memory During Inference Using Manifold Traversal Architecture ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, May 12 -- ATOMBEAM TECHNOLOGIES INC., Moraga, California has been assigned a patent (No. US 12626167 B2, initially filed Sept. 25, 2025) developed by Brian Galvin, Silverdale, Washington, and Alan McCord, Forney, Texas, for "System and method for large  more

SANTA FE, New Mexico, May 13 -- WildEarth Guardians issued the following news release: * * * WildEarth Guardians Sues Federal Agencies Over Chronic Failure to Release Public Records Fifteen information requests stalled for years as logging, grazing, and wildlife decisions move forward without transparency * WASHINGTON -- The Western conservation group WildEarth Guardians filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, and U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for systematicall  more