Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham

Next month, a joint hearing between the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board will be held to consider rules meant to speed up the transition from fossil fuels to electric vehicles.

A month and a half after Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a public health executive order regarding gun violence and illegal drug use, the outcome for young people who are arrested remains unclear.The order suspends a set of guidelines for helping keep young people out of detention that have been in place for about a quarter of a century. But officials are still using those guidelines in New Mexico, even as more young people are put in detention centers.

A federal judge in Albuquerque Wednesday ruled that Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s temporary ban on carrying firearms at public parks and playgrounds can take effect. Despite that, the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Department said it will not be enforcing it.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham gave an update Tuesday on the progress of her public health executive order regarding gun violence and illegal drug use.Arrests and detentions rose last month, following the order issued on September 8th.

Firearm deaths are increasing in New Mexico, nearly doubling in the course of a decade. That’s according to a new report from the New Mexico Department of Health, which released a report on gun violence that Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham called for in her executive order regarding gun violence in September.

New Mexico is set to fall far short of its climate goals unless it makes some big policy changes in the coming years. That’s according to a new report from the nonprofit advocacy group Environmental Defense Fund.

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s executive order on gun violence this week is prompting legal challenges, stirring support from gun control advocates and is being questioned by politicians on both sides of the aisle, including U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich.The New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has also raised concerns about the criminalization of vulnerable people, especially young people.

The Senate Rules Committee reconfirmed Debra Garcia y Griego as Department of Cultural Affairs Cabinet Secretary on Friday. The two-hour meeting drew passionate statements from supporters, but also opponents who are upset by personnel shakeups at the agency.

A grant process meant to help the Four Corners region recover from the closure of the San Juan Generating Station and reduce reliance on jobs from the oil and gas industry has resumed after a long hiatus caused by the world-wide pandemic.

The U.S. Forest Service scheduled two prescribed burns last week in the southwest part of the state despite a red flag warning issued by the National Weather Service. Ultimately the agency burned the day before, but not the day of the warning. However, officials also said a new state law does not apply to the federal agency.