Hannah Grover

By Hannah Grover About eight years ago, I joined reporters at a small municipal airport in southeast Utah waiting for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to arrive.  The tension was obvious. At one location, protestors lined the highway asking Zinke not to reduce the size of the Bears Ears National Monument. At another, a different group […]

By Hannah Grover The first community solar project on state trust lands in New Mexico broke ground on Thursday in Los Lunas. The Global Give A Book Community Solar Project is one of eight currently slated to be installed on parcels leased from the State Land Office as the agency looks to increase renewable energy […]

By Hannah Grover New Mexico saw a 31% increase in the number of home insurance policies that were not renewed from 2018 to 2023, according to information compiled by two advocacy groups. The groups Public Citizen and Revolving Door Project used information from the U.S. Treasury’s Federal Insurance Office and a U.S. Senate Committee on […]

By Hannah Grover While many New Mexicans in the extreme low-income category face severe housing cost burdens, the percentage of those who do in the state is less than neighboring states.  A new fact sheet released by the University of Nevada Las Vegas examined the housing cost burdens for the lowest income residents in New […]

By Hannah Grover Major cities in New Mexico continue to struggle with ozone levels. Both the Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Los Alamos metropolitan statistical area and the El Paso-Las Cruces metropolitan statistical area are ranked in the top most polluted cities in terms of ozone on this year’s State of the Air Report. The American Lung Association released […]

By Hannah Grover Navajo Nation advocates urged their leaders to stand against federal attempts to increase uranium extraction on Diné lands and the transport of uranium ore across the reservation.  The advocates spoke Monday as Tribal leaders gathered in Window Rock, Arizona, for the start of the spring Navajo Council session. The coalition of advocates […]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration published a notice this week in the Federal Register announcing rulemaking that would rescind the definition of “harm” in the ESA regulations.

By Hannah Grover The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation broke ground this week on a water treatment plant that is a key component of the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project. The groundbreaking included a Navajo blessing ceremony for the water treatment plant on the project’s San Juan Lateral.  Bart Deming, a construction engineer with the Bureau’s Four […]

By Hannah Grover When Old Barrel Tea Company decided to start manufacturing their tea blends in New Mexico, Paola Huffmon, one of the co-owners, thought “how hard can it be to manufacture our own tea?” She told NM Political Report that, in 2018, when she started working to manufacture the teas, she realized exactly how […]

By Hannah Grover Federal lands near Española and Santa Fe could be sold off as part of an effort to increase affordable housing, according to the advocacy group Center for Biological Diversity. Those lands include places near the Ojo Caliente Area of Critical Environmental Concern, where there are Native American cultural sites and mineral springs, […]