For the first time, a tribe in the U.S. has led research using DNA to show their ancestral connection to Chaco Canyon, one of ...

Today’s lawsuit demands that the state comply with its constitutional duty to protect New Mexico’s environment, and that permitting of oil and gas wells be suspended in the meantime. “New Mexico’s ...

Volatile oil prices are setting the stage for fossil fuel companies to abandon oil and gas wells en masse, particularly in the Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico. Those two states are ...

By Lisa Friedman The Trump administration has opened thousands of acres of land in Nevada and New Mexico to oil and gas drilling, geothermal development and hard-rock mining, reversing protections ...

New Mexico oil and gas operators averaged a spill every seven hours in the beginning months of 2025, according to a recent ...

SANTA FE, N.M.— A New Mexico district court ruled today that oil and business interests can intervene in a landmark lawsuit against the state for failing to uphold its constitutional duty to control ...

(Photo by Isabel Koyama / Howard Center for Investigative Journalism) New Mexico oil and gas operators averaged a spill every seven hours in the beginning months of 2025, according to a recent ...