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Heinrich, Hirono: Legislation Puts Higher Education Within Reach For More Americans

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U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich

U.S. SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich, D-N.M. and Mazie K. Hirono, D-Hawaii introduced S.1998, the Middle Class Creating Higher Education Affordability Necessary to Compete Economically (CHANCE) Act, a bill to increase access to affordable post-secondary education for low- to moderate-income students.

U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono

The bill would address the significant loss in value of Pell Grants by adjusting them for inflation, reinstate year-round Pell Grants, and increase the number of eligible semesters to 15.

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DOE Selects LANS For Carbon Storage Research

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This figure illustrates the geologic storage process and the different research efforts underway including tools designed to measure CO2 and its effects in the subsurface, the near-surface region, and the atmosphere. Data analyzed through acquisition of information from these tools may also be used to optimize injection operations, sweep efficiency, and identify possible unwanted CO2 migration pathways. Courtesy/DOE

DOE News:

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected Los Alamos National Security, LLC to receive funding to Read More

Udall Leads Coalition Pressing FDA On E-Cig Toxins

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, Dick Durbin, D-Ill., Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Jack Reed, D-R.I. and Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii called for clear product standards and good manufacturing processes to combat the health risks of toxic substances in e-cigarettes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalizes its first regulations of the aerosol-producing products.
 
The number of e-cigarette users—especially among young people—has soared in recent
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New Mexico, Colorado Delegations Urge President To Direct Federal Resources To Gold King Mine Response

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― Members of the New Mexico and Colorado congressional delegations are urging President Barack Obama to direct any and all appropriate federal resources to help respond to damage from the Gold King Mine spill that occurred last week in the Animas River.
 
Communities in both states along the affected rivers are working quickly to minimize the short-term and long-term public health and economic challenges caused by the tragic spill.
 
Recovering from the spill will take a full and coordinated approach from the Environmental Protection
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LANL: Young, Jupiter-like Planet Discovered

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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

Acting EM Manager Christine Gelles Blazes New Trail

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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.com
 
By ROGER SNODGRASS
LOS ALAMOS DAILY POST

Christine 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

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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.

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Luján Meets With EPA Administrator McCarthy

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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.

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Governor To Recognize UNM’s Recent Designation As A National Comprehensive Cancer Center

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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

Native American Artists Gather For World’s Largest Indian Art Market Aug. 22-23

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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