The Albuquerque Journal discontinued its SPEAK UP Opinion Feature last October , just one week before they announced several staffing cuts . Today they announced, ” You have called, written and emailed how much you loved the Speak Up feature on the Editorial Page, and how much you miss it since it was dropped.
Category: Senator Martin Heinrich
US Senators from New Mexico push for bill to protect young immigrants
Both New Mexico U.S. Senators introduced a bill aimed at protecting thousands of young immigrants who arrived in the country as children. Democrats Martin Heinrich and Tom Udall are pushing the “Project Dreamer Confidentiality Act.”
EPA rejects $1.2B in mine-spill claims
The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that it will not repay claims totaling more than $1.2 billion for economic damages from a mine waste spill the agency accidentally triggered in Colorado, saying the law prohibits it. Attorneys for the EPA and the Justice Department concluded that the EPA is barred from paying the claims because of sovereign immunity, which prohibits most lawsuits against the government.
EPA says it can’t pay economic damages from mine spill
In this Aug. 6, 2015 file photo, Dan Bender, with the La Plata County Sheriff’s Office, takes a water sample from the Animas River near Durango, Colo. after the accidental release of an estimated 3 million gallons of waste from the Gold King Mine by a crew led by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.