#Thanks to lobbying by the National Rifle Association, federal law prohibits the National Tracing Center from using a searchable database to identify the owners of guns seized at crime scenes. Whose privacy is being protected there?" [2]
#"Right now, if families in Eastern New Mexico want to go solar, they have to pay their electric utility, Southwestern Public Service SPS), an average of $28 monthly in fees that other customers don't have to pay." "Earlier this year, SPS filed with the Public Regulation Commission (PRC) to raise Rate 59 once again as part of its newest rate case." In late June, a PRC hearing examiner recommended that Rate 59 be cancelled, along with another charge that discourages residential and business solar. [3]
#"Holtec has a controversial plan to store up to 100,000 tons of the nation's most dangerous nuclear-reactor waste for as long as 120 years in the ground between Hobbs and Carlsbad." "Holtec plans to transport canisters of irradiated reactor fuel rods from around the country and store them slightly underground and partly above the surface in New Mexico." [4]
#" Initial estimates are that industry has requested for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to lease more than 55,000 acres of additional Greater Chaco public land, which is already 91 percent leased out to oil and gas." [5] Chaco is a cliff into which Indians long ago cut livable openings.
#The Trump administration has said that the emissions standards set to take effect for cars built from 2021 to 2026 are unreasonable for both economic and safety reasons. The EPA and the Department of Transportation are proposing to freeze standards at their proposed 2020 level. The proposal would produce an average of 37 miles per gallon, versus the Obama standard of 54.5 miles per gallon.
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