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By Joshua Bowling | Senior Reporter

Good morning, everyone. It’s Tuesday, and it looks like we can expect another busy week of interim legislative committee hearings across the state. At one such meeting Monday, state environment officials revealed how a bipartisan, Biden-era law helped them address a record number of unplugged oil and gas wells in the most recent fiscal year. And New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez continued his dispute with the feds over allegations that drug enforcement agents knowingly let fentanyl flow into New Mexico communities. Catch up on it all below, and at sourcenm.com.

New Mexico Attorney General Torrez says feds wrongly denied his request for fentanyl records

New Mexico Attorney General Torrez says feds wrongly denied his request for fentanyl records

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez on Monday announced that the United States Department of Justice had denied his office’s requests for records relating to allegations that federal drug agents allowed large quantities of fentanyl to enter New Mexico communities without seizing them.

New Mexico plugs record number of abandoned oil and gas wells, thanks to Biden-era funding

New Mexico plugs record number of abandoned oil and gas wells, thanks to Biden-era funding

New Mexico environmental officials plugged a record number of abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells last year, thanks in large part to funding from Biden-era grants, they told a panel of state lawmakers Monday.

The high cost of birth: New Mexico families travel farther for care

The high cost of birth: New Mexico families travel farther for care

New Mexico has made strides in improving maternal and infant health, but many families have challenges finding a place to give birth.

New Mexico public lands panel decries ‘greed’ behind push to remove Chaco buffer, shrink monuments

New Mexico public lands panel decries ‘greed’ behind push to remove Chaco buffer, shrink monuments

Leaders of New Mexico conservationist and Indigenous groups on Thursday decried the many threats President Donald Trump’s administration poses to public lands in the state, including through rolling back environmental regulations, shrinking national monuments and excluding the public from meaningful input. 

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