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More evidence it’ll be tough for ponderosa to return after last year’s fires
A group of Flagstaff researchers have a new study out looking at post-fire recovery of ponderosa forest in the southwest, and the news isn’t particularly good. In interviews after last... Read more »
Tough road ahead for nuclear cleanup budget
One of the things we’re watching closely for you is the trajectory of the Los Alamos National Laboratory cleanup budget. New Mexico Environment Secretary David Martin and a coalition of... Read more »
Young: analysis of nuke cuts reasonable
Understanding the connection between the size of the U.S. nuclear arsenal and the workload at our nuclear weapons labs to maintain the bombs and warheads is non-trivial. It would be... Read more »
More Republican push-back against slowing growth of nuclear weapons budget
We’re seeing more push-back from Congressional Republicans against the Obama administration’s proposed budget for the U.S. nuclear weapons budget. The proposal, rolled out in February, calls for an increase in... Read more »
A bit more on our optimistic water news
Michael Cohen of the Pacific Institute, who’s done a lot of work on municipal water consumption and conservation in the western United States, had an interesting followup comment in an... Read more »
What happens next for “old CMR”
Los Alamos National Laboratory is in the midst of a 60-day analysis of how it will go about getting the lab’s plutonium work done now that the Obama administration has... Read more »
Albuquerque meets water conservation goal early
Albuquerque water users consumed 149.55 gallons per person per day, according to a report filed earlier this month with the state. The numbers here are complicated by new census population... Read more »
New Mexico’s cool February was a US outlier
It was a warm February in the United States, except here. From Andrew Freedman’s summary of the month that was (or, as he puts it, the winter that wasn’t): Winter... Read more »
Turner pushes back against CMRR cut
Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, today (Thurs. 3/8/12) pushed back against the Obama administration’s proposal to indefinitely defer work on the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility (CMRR-NF) at Los... Read more »
State officials push for Los Alamos, WIPP funding
A group of New Mexicans, led by state Environment Secretary David Martin, is just back from a trip to DC to lobby for more money for operations at the Waste... Read more »
A lingering La Niña and a lousy NM runoff forecast
Today’s monthly federal La Niña outlook shows our drought-bringer fading, but the latest from the streamflow forecast team suggests it’s probably not soon enough. On the La Niña front, forecasters... Read more »
Southern NM Snowpack Disappearing Fast
The water left by a series of December and January storms in southern New Mexico is disappearing fast, and the available evidence suggests its blowing away in dry winds (a... Read more »
