Politics

Udall Highlights Push To Expand Tech Transfer At DOE Labs, Build NM’s Economy

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U.S. Senator Tom Udall

U.S. SENATE News:

  • Udall seeks input from roundtable on tech transfer legislation 

ALBUQUERQUE – Today, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall hosted U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) and DOE Acting Director of the Office of Technology Transitions Jetta Wong at Sandia National Laboratories for a roundtable discussion about improving technology transfer and creating jobs.

Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) officials joined several local businesses that were created based on technology developed at the labs to discuss Read More

Air Force Heeds Heinrich’s Call To Address RPA Personnel Shortfalls

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SENATE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, welcomed the Air Force’s announcement Oct. 8, to expand the Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) mission at Holloman Air Force Base.
 
The expansion will increase the rate of student production from 603 pilots and sensor operator students in fiscal year 2015 up to an estimated 818 students in fiscal year 2016.
 
“Our RPA community has been at a breaking point. Our airmen have had to fly countless missions with too few pilots,” Heinrich
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Luján Legislation Supports Treatment For Pregnant And Postpartum Women Suffering From Substance Abuse

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U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján
 
CONGRESSIONAL News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico’s Third District spoke Friday Oct. 9, at a Health Subcommittee hearing, “Examining Legislative Proposals to Combat our Nation’s Drug Abuse Crisis.”
 
Luján discussed legislation he introduced earlier this week to enhance treatment programs for pregnant and postpartum women who are suffering from substance use disorders. 
 
The Improving Treatment for Pregnant and Postpartum Women Act reauthorizes a residential treatment program that provides
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Oak Ridge 3 Peace Protesters Headline Awards Ceremony On Capitol Hill

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NFFAF News:
 
TAKOMA PARK, Md., ― Peace protesters Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed are among those to be honored at this year’s Nuclear-Free Future Awards in Washington, D.C., sponsored by the Nuclear-Free Future Award Foundation (NFFAF).
 
The Nuclear-Free Future Awards are given annually to individuals who, through courage, integrity and conviction, have acted to rid the world of uranium mining, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
 
This year’s Nuclear-Free Future Award ceremony is Wednesday, Oct. 28, in the Rayburn House
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Waters Of The U.S. Rule Blocked Nationwide

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NMED News:

The Oct. 9 Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling applying a nationwide stay of the Environmental Protection Agency’s and Army Corps of Engineer’s Waters of the U.S. (WOTUS) rule affirms the success already achieved by the New Mexico Environment Department, Office of the State Engineer, and 12 other Rocky Mountain coalition states in halting the implementation of the WOTUS rule, while the rule’s serious deficiencies are litigated. 

The federal appeals court in Ohio ruled that delaying implementation of the WOTUS rule nationwide, while litigation proceeds, would not threaten Read More

DOE Invests Over $34 Million To Improve Protection Of Nation’s Energy Infrastructure

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DOE News:
 
WASHINGTON, D.C. ― As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to protecting America’s energy critical infrastructure, the Energy Department (DOE) announced more than $34 million for two projects that will improve the protection of the U.S. electric grid and oil and natural gas infrastructure from cyber threats.
 
The University of Arkansas and the University of Illinois will assemble teams with expertise in power systems engineering and the computer science of cybersecurity to develop new technologies that will help protect energy delivery systems
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Udall Hosts Events At LANL And Sandia With Lead Senate Appropriations Democrat Barbara Mikulski

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SENATE News:
 
Tuesday, Oct. 13 and Wednesday, Oct. 14, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall will host Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairwoman Barbara A. Mikulski (D-Md.) in Los Alamos and Albuquerque to discuss the important role New Mexico’s national laboratories play in national security, energy and the state’s economy.
 
Udall, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, has fought for strong funding for important programs at New Mexico’s national labs.
 
He invited Mikulski to tour both labs and to
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Even When It’s Out Of Commission, Everybody Wants A Piece Of WIPP

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Beatrice Brailsford, left, of the Snake River Alliance and Tom Clements, right, of Savannah River Site Watch teamed up last week for nuclear waste site visits with their New Mexico counterpart, Don Hancock, director of the Nuclear Waste Safety program at the Southwest Research and Information Center in Albuquerque. Photo by Roger Snodgrass/ladailypost.com

By ROGER SNODGRASS

Los Alamos Daily Post
 
Twenty months after a truck fire and a Valentine’s Day radiation release almost half a mile underground, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico is still out of business
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Barney Trujillo Announces Bid For House Dist. 40

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More than 150 guest attend SUnday’s launch of the Barney Trujillo for House Dst. 40 campaign at the Santa Claran. Courtesy photo

POLITICAL News:

Barney Trujillo

Española – With more than 150 guests in attendance Sunday at the Santa Claran, Rio Arriba County Commissioner Barney Trujillo formally announced his bid for New Mexico’s House Dist. 40 (Rio Arriba, Colfax, Mora, & San Miguel).

Trujillo is the chairman of the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities.

Special guests at Sunday’s event include Sen. Richard Martinez, Rio Arriba Commissioner Alex Naranjo, Read More