LANL: Young, Jupiter-like Planet Discovered
Jupiter-like planet. Couresy/LANL
LANL News:
A team of researchers has discovered a Jupiter-like planet within a young system that could provide a new understanding of how planets formed around the sun.
The new planet, called 51 Eridani b, is the first exoplanet discovered by the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), a new instrument operated by an international collaboration headed by Bruce Macintosh, a professor of physics in the Kavli Institute at Stanford University. It is a million times fainter than its star and shows the strongest methane signature ever detected on an alien planet, which should Read More
Ban Lifted On Water Supply Connection To Animas And San Juan Rivers And Public’s Recreational Use
NMED NEWS:
- Governor Susana Martinez’ Long-Term Impact Review Team in Place
FARMINGTON – New Mexico Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn, Game and Fish Department Director Alexa Sandoval and Health Department Secretary Retta Ward Saturday lifted the ban on San Juan County’s drinking water systems’ supply connection to the Animas and San Juan Rivers and on the public’s recreational use of the rivers.
The ban is lifted with certain prudent health practices, following the Aug. 5 Gold King Mine Spill.
“Because the waters of the Animas and San Juan Rivers are now meeting all applicable Read More
Acting EM Manager Christine Gelles Blazes New Trail
Acting Manager Christine Gelles of the EM field office in Los Alamos at Wednesday’s ETEBA meeting in Santa Fe. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.comChristine Gelles will not forget Valentine’s Day, Feb.14, 2014 in Washington, D.C.
“I had already had a really bad restaurant experience that day and then all of these reports came in,” she recalled 16 months later. “Life has been strange since then,”
That was the evening a barrel of plutonium waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory erupted at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, the underground Read More
Los Alamos Post Office Officially Placed On National Register Of Historic Places
Los Alamos Post Office. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypos.com
COMMUNITY News:
Chair Mark Rayburn of the Fuller Lodge Historic Districts Advisory Board just announced that the Los Alamos Post Office has been officially placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
“I just received great news from Steven Moffson from the Santa Fe State Historic Preservation Office this morning, and also received the 33-page document making it official that the Los Alamos Post Office has been officially placed on the National Register of Historic Places,” Rayburn said.
Planning for a Read More
Governor Announces Long-Term Impact Review Team to Monitor EPA-Caused Spill In Animas River
Effects of the massive 3 million gallon waste spill in the Animas River flowing through Aztec last week. Photo by Randy Foster
STATE News:
FARMINGTON — Today, Gov. Susana Martinez announced the creation of a multiagency, long-term impact review team to monitor the effects of the massive 3 million gallon waste spill in the Animas River that EPA officials have admitted to causing.
After touring the spill by helicopter for the second time in less than a week, the Governor made the announcement with cabinet secretaries and directors of the New Mexico Departments of Agriculture, Environment, Game Read More
Luján Meets With EPA Administrator McCarthy
U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján
STATE News:
FARMINGTON – U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District released the following statement today after participating in meetings and briefings with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy over the past two days on the Gold King Mine spill.
Luján met with McCarthy in Durango, Colo., and Farmington. Earlier in the week he spoke with McCarty on the importance of visiting New Mexico. Luján, along with New Mexico Senators Udall and Heinrich, also sent a letter to McCarthy to express their concerns with EPA’s response.
EPA Administrator Read More
PNM Has New Plan For San Juan Generating Station
SIERRA CLUB News:
- New Plan Includes Clean Energy Credits and Offers Opportunity to Revisit Future of SJGS in 2018
ALBUQUERQUE – Today the Public Service Company of New Mexico released a new plan for the future of the San Juan Generating Station as part of their ongoing negotiations with the Public Regulation Commission.
In response, Nellis Kennedy-Howard, Senior Campaign Representative for the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign, released the following statement:
“PNM’s new plan for the San Juan Generating Station offers an opportunity for PNM to commit to retiring Read More
Governor To Recognize UNM’s Recent Designation As A National Comprehensive Cancer Center
Gov. Susana Martinez
ALBUQUERQUE — Today, Gov. Susana Martinez will recognize the University of New Mexico Comprehensive Cancer Center’s recent designation as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute.
The designation is the highest federal designation a cancer center can receive and will allow it to apply for additional funds to go toward cancer research. Read More
An American Modernism Opens At NMMA Oct. 2
Andrew Dasburg, Sangre de Cristo, circa 1933, watercolor, 15 1/8 x 21 5/8 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Mr. Edwin F. Gamble, 1968 (2235.23P) Photo by Blair ClarkNative American Artists Gather For World’s Largest Indian Art Market Aug. 22-23
Kathleen Wall, Jemez Pueblo. Courtesy/swaia.org
ART News:
SANTA FE — The 94th Annual Santa Fe Indian Market begins at sunrise Saturday, Aug. 22 in downtown Santa Fe.
For close to 100 years, Santa Fe Indian Market has been the benchmark for quality and authenticity for Native American artwork. Indian Market is the largest juried Native art show in the world and the largest cultural event in the Southwest.
This year’s market will feature more than 1,000 artists who will exhibit a wide variety of artistic media from traditional weavings and basketry to exquisite jewelry and pottery. Two-dimensional Read More
