SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN

Associated Press Writer
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Group: Set aside section of Southwest for jaguars

Environmentalists are asking the federal government to set aside an area of the Southwest more than half the size of California to help protect the endangered jaguar.

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Tribes face hurdles with sex offender registration

Only Ohio and Native American tribes in Washington and Oregon have so far met the deadline to comply with a federal law passed nearly three years ago to coordinate and expand sex offender registration nationwide, a U.S. Justice Department official said Wednesday.

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Official: Tribal children need 'healthy families'

Making more arrests and throwing more offenders behind bars will not bring an end to the crimes against children and other violence that is plaguing many of the nation's American Indian communities, a federal official for Indian affairs said Tuesday.

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Japan, New Mexico collaborate on smart grid tech

Two national laboratories, the state of New Mexico and a Japanese agency are developing smart grid technology to give homeowners and businesses more access to renewable energy sources by controlling the supply and demand of electric power.

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Redford collaborates on New Mexico film program

Actor and director Robert Redford and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson unveiled details Friday of a collaboration that will expand training opportunities for Native Americans and Hispanics interested in filmmaking, the arts and the environment.

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Tax increase could help with NM cavern fix

A southeastern New Mexico brine well that's in danger of collapsing and taking with it part of a highway, a major irrigation canal and a trailer park could end up costing as much as $25 million to remediate.

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Chevron to build solar plant at NM tailings site

A subsidiary of oil giant Chevron Corp. plans to build what New Mexico officials say will be the largest solar power plant in the nation that uses lenses to focus sunlight onto solar cells.

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New Mexico bill first step toward carbon storage

Rancher Jack Chatfield sees untapped value in the spaces that lie beneath New Mexico's dusty landscape. But he said the state needs to first decide who owns them.

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Carlsbad sues New Mexico company over brine well

The state of New Mexico and city of Carlsbad are legally pursuing an oilfield services company they said is responsible for a giant cavern that has formed a few hundred feet underground.

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New Mexico attracts green building manufacturer

A company that manufacturers sustainable building products for the construction industry is moving to the Gallup area, which state officials claimed as proof they're making good on their word to bring more jobs to New Mexico's rural areas.

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Gov. Richardson gets NM efficiency recommendations

New recommendations aimed at saving taxpayer money and making New Mexico's government more efficient call for merging some state departments, doing away with more than a dozen boards and commissions and changing the public school funding formula.

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Groups fight effort to regulate emissions in NM

New Mexico's largest utility, three state lawmakers and other industry groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday to stop New Mexico regulators from adopting a cap on greenhouse gas emissions.

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NM Indian tribe hopes to profit from solar energy

A poverty-stricken Indian tribe that holds the sun and nature's other gifts sacred sees a brighter future for itself in solar power.

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Feds to set aside habitat for jaguar recovery

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Tuesday it will set aside critical habitat for the endangered jaguar and develop a recovery plan for the elusive animal once thought to have disappeared from the United States.

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Bingaman: Cap and trade bill unlikely this year

The chairman of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee said Tuesday that it's unclear whether Congress will be able to pass cap and trade legislation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions this year.

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NM PRC makes decision in renewable energy case

New Mexico regulators have issued an order that clears the way for customers to take advantage of third-party power purchase agreements with renewable energy developers, potentially opening the door for more investment in solar systems.

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Report: New Mexico's greenhouse gas emissions up

An inventory of New Mexico's greenhouse gas production shows residents have reduced their average emissions from gasoline use over a seven-year period, but they're consuming more energy to heat, cool and power their homes.

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NM, other states compete for energy development

New Mexico has invited dozens of scientists, industry experts and others from across the nation to help develop a strategy for growing the state's biofuels industry.

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New Mexico pueblo waits for geothermal grant money

Jemez Pueblo is ready to study the geothermal energy potential locked thousands of feet beneath its rural reservation in northern New Mexico, but the federal government has yet to deliver the stimulus funds needed to start the work.

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NM oil and gas agency warns of fewer inspections

The state agency responsible for preventing contamination from oil and natural gas operations and reclaiming past environmental damage will have to drastically reduce its routine field inspections as New Mexico searches for ways to plug a $650 million budget shortfall.

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Wolf recovery at crossroads in the Southwest

A decade has passed since the federal government began returning endangered Mexican wolves to their historic range in the Southwest. It hasn't worked out — for the wolves, for ranchers, for conservationists or for federal biologists.

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Hewlett Packard opens New Mexico support center

Hewlett-Packard Co. opened a customer service and technical support center here Wednesday, making good on a commitment to provide 1,300 jobs that pay at least $40,000, in exchange for more than $20 million in incentives.

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NM report says transmission key to renewable power

New Mexico has huge potential to produce electricity from renewable sources but a small window to develop transmission lines to deliver that power to customers, a lawmaker said Tuesday after listening to a report on the issue.

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NM wants company to take responsibility for cavern

The state of New Mexico has spent more than a half-million dollars investigating and monitoring a giant cavern a few hundred feet beneath the ground in southeastern New Mexico.

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NM city prepares for salt cavern collapse

The bright yellow signs on U.S. 285 are the first indication that things aren't right in Carlsbad.

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