My colleague, Mary Alice Murphy, touched on this in yesterday’s edition of the Silver City Daily Press, but here’s data from some of the air-monitoring sites set up around Hurley for Tuesday’s demolition. Most of the trend lines appear to show an increase in the early morning prior to the demolition, with particulate levels dropping [...]

Actually, plenty of people are. NewMexiKen was wondering back in April (along with the New York Times) and here in Silver City bees have been an issue for the past several weeks. Today in Salon, four experts tackle the declining-bee-population problem: The buzz about the alarming disappearance of bees has been all about people food. [...]

Via Facebook of all places (I’m friends with Ranger Rick!) comes this National Geographic Green Guide item on Earth Day: While global warming and human expansion have us focused on dropping the carbon pounds—switching light bulbs, reducing gas mileage and buying carbon offsets—vast numbers of species continue to lose their native habitats and food supplies. [...]

Craig Roepke, the Interstate Stream Commission deputy director, just passed along a list of the studies that would have been completed on the Gila this year, if Gov. Bill Richardson hadn’t axed the funding yesterday: Extinction Risk Analysis for Spikedace and Loachminnow ($30,000) Land-Use and Land Management of the Gila and San Francisco Rivers ($50,000) [...]

The Associated Press is reporting that Gov. Bill Richardson is trading up to an ethanol-fueled SUV: Gov. Bill Richardson’s hybrid sport utility vehicle just wasn’t big enough. So the 6-foot-2 Richardson has traded it in for a bigger SUV that can run on a blend of gasoline and ethanol, a spokesman told the Albuquerque Journal [...]

Read Jim Baca: Fast forward to a report put out by the Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative, an effort funded in part by the World Bank. Read the report’s executive summary here. It turns out that livestock production accounts for more greenhouse gas emmissions than the transportation sector. Cattle Farts are warming up the planet. [...]

Via Headwaters News comes this story out of Canada: The company which owns Victoria’s Secret has been whipped into line by environmentalists whose campaign urged it to protect caribou in Alberta’s foothills forests. Limited Brands will immediately stop using pulp from West Fraser’s Hinton mill to produce the 350 million lingerie catalogues it sends out [...]

We’ve received a lot of calls today from people wondering if we had heard about the Freeport-McMoRan buyout of Phelps Dodge. I assure you, we did. I’m still trying to gather my thoughts. Both of my parents worked for Phelps Dodge (my mom was communications director for NM Operations before she left for her D.C. [...]

Via Headwaters News I saw this post over at New West: You know an industry is heating up when you start hearing the word “bubble” tossed around. That’s the verdict of this week’s cover story (sub. req.) in the influential British newsmagazine The Economist, which finds that the renewable-energy sector, boosted by high-flying venture capital [...]

There’s a new blog on the block (and on the sidebar’s New Mexico Blogroll) that I’ve meant to talk about. But, with the election and all, things got a little busy. Nonetheless, I present to you Alternative Comment, based in Las Cruces. The blog’s author is a self-described “renewable energy advocate.” Take a look at [...]

From The Consumerist: Energy Star appliances will save you enough money to warrant you purchasing them regardless of tax breaks, but hey, why not get some tax breaks? There are lots of incentive programs out there… everything from rebates to tax cuts. You’ve just got to know where to look. Meet DSIRE, the Database of [...]

The Salt Lake Tribune wrote a scathing editorial featuring Congressman Steve Pearce this morning, and legislation he wrote that some are calling a land grab. It wasn’t pretty: There have been many proposals for clarifying road rights of way in the West. The one being sponsored by New Mexico Republican Rep. Steve Pearce is the [...]