Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Nuke Budgets Have a Way of Growing By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Maintaining old Cold War nukes has proven to be an expensive proposition. They're fiddly, highly optimized feats of human engineering designed to pack the largest, deadliest wallop into the smallest ... full story
Saturday, June 27, 2009 New Way To Harvest Sunlight By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The sunlight danced in and out of Albuquerque's clouds earlier this week as a pair of energy companies joined federal researchers to take the wraps off of a new solar technology. The technology ... full story
Friday, June 26, 2009 Lab Slow To Fix Fire Hazards By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have been slow to fix fire safety problems identified in 2006, according to federal investigators. The delays “increased ... full story
Thursday, June 25, 2009 Here Come the Rains Again By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Our summer rainy season, which has been creeping up on us since late May, appears to have arrived. Tuesday's thunderstorms over Albuquerque were "more 'monsoonish' than anything we've seen so far," said ... full story
Sunday, June 21, 2009 Getting a Lift By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The thing that makes the Colorado Plateau so beautiful has long been one of geology's great mysteries. You can see it looking west from White Mesa northwest of Albuquerque - beds of rock stacked one atop another ... full story
Friday, June 19, 2009 Water Monitoring Urged By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer New water sampling in the Rio Grande Valley's irrigation ditches has found traces of pharmaceuticals, and the activist group that made the discovery called for more careful water monitoring to ensure it is not a ... full story
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Report: Climate Change Evident By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The effects of human-caused climate change, in the form of rising temperatures and dwindling snowpacks, can already be seen in New Mexico and are likely to get worse as greenhouse gases rise, according ... full story
... referred to Tom D’Agostino as a Los Alamos Laboratory official. He is actually the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer A top federal nuclear official this week endorsed continued operation of a Los Alamos National Laboratory research ... full story
...The House of Representatives today passed the Waxman-Markey greenhouse gas reduction bill this evening by a razor-thin 219-212 margin.That's one vote above the 218 needed for passage. All three New Me...
...Last week's missive about burrowing owls at Journal Center triggered an email from the folks at Los Alamos National Laboratory about the Mexican spotted owls living in the lab's protected backcountry....
...Congress is taking up the Waxman-Markey energy-greenhouse-cap-trade bill as we speak. Some related linkage:It's been easy for supporters of greenhouse gas reductions to offer a united front when all t...
...Albuquerque-based utility company PNM this afternoon called for congressional passage of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill headed to Congress tomorrow. The bill closely matches a propos...
...Federal investigators say the National Nuclear Security Administration has been slow to deal with fire safety problems at Los Alamos National Laboratory. In a report released today (Thurs. June 2...
...It is perhaps belaboring the obvious to point out that drought conditions have improved in New Mexico. That's what happens when it rains. The map to the right is this week's drought monitor. Condition...
...Mike Coleman's story in today's Journal about Harry Teague's amendment to the Waxman-Market climate bill is a case study in the horse trading going on as the bill moves toward a vote tomorrow (Fri. 6/...
...All the fly kids (did I get that right?) are down with Buzz Aldrin (imagine me making embarrassing hip-hop gestures as I blog this). Dave Maas takes us inside the political struggles among backers of ...
...Yes, the monsoon season is really here. We've got a newsroom joke that the monsoon season is not official underway until Fleck (that's me) says it is. What the really means is that the monsoon se...
...Barb Wold, who runs the invaluable Democracy for New Mexico blog, is always careful to point out the difference between what she's doing and what people like me in the "mainstream media" do. But somet...
...New Mexico congressman Ben Ray Lujan will join California Democrat Henry Waxman this afternoon to endorse passage later this week of sweeping new climate change legislation.Luján will be one of the s...
...The Wilderness Society is honoring Jeff Bingaman tomorrow (Wed. June 24) with its Ansel Adams award for, among other things, his leadership of efforts earlier this year to pass a broad wilderness cons...
...A pair of solar energy companies and Sandia National Labs today unveiled the latest version of new type of solar power plant technology. Developed by Stirling Energy Systems with help from Sandia...
...This morning's Internet reading includes two entries from thinkers I respect a great deal on central questions regarding the two biggest policy questions on our plates right now: energy/climate and he...
...For better or for worse (and there are reasonable people with passionate views on both sides of the issue), New Mexico is in the uranium business. We've got an enrichment plant soon to come on line ou...
...Page, over at the new Plutonium Cafe, offers a nice look at the declining discourse around the issue of climate change. Money quote: "When things get to the point of rude name calling, I am tempted to...
...If you're looking for a preview of what might happen to climate and energy legislation when it gets to the U.S. Senate later this summer, I commend my colleague Mike Coleman's column in today's Journa...
...A frequently asked question here in New Mexico: Does it make sense to spend our precious water growing alfalfa?That's a specific case of a broader question frequently being asked here in the West rega...
...The burrowing owl at the right is not the burrowing owl I saw on my lunchtime walk today at Journal Center. All I had was a cell phone camera, and I thought you'd be better served with Journal photogr...
...The city fathers and mothers in St. George are struggling mightily to explain why all those salt cedars are dying. Turns out it's a feature, not a bug. Or rather, the bug eating the salt cedars is int...
...As the population of the middle Rio Grande Region (Albuquerque and surrounding areas) grows from a bit less than 800,000 today to an estimated 1.8 million in 2050*, one of the most important governmen...
...New water sampling in the Rio Grande Valley’s irrigation ditches has found traces of pharmaceuticals, and the activist group that made the discovery called Thursday for more careful water monitoring...
...Southeast New Mexico's dry conditions should improve in the next few months, according to a federal forecast out today. A large section of the state's southeast corner is currently in moderate to...
...How's Albuquerque fairing in the bigger economic picture? Plus what's up with changing all those light bulbs? Click through for more:At NMI, Matt Reichbach looks at some new Brookings data putting Alb...
...New Mexico's Public Regulation Commission has agreed to settle a debate over whether a solar energy company can install panels on a school's roof and sell the power to the school. The school exam...
...Human-caused climate change is "well underway" in the southwestern United States, with rapidly rising temperatures and dwindling water supplies, according to a sweeping new federal report unveiled tod...
...From LA, word that gas prices (already over $3 there) matter, plus really big time solar. Click through for links.I commented yesterday on the rising price of gas here in New Mexico. From California, ...
...Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman has been a leader in the push for state-level action in response to climate change. As a Republican in a generally conservative state, his roll has been an important one, pushin...
...Tom Sanders, the Sandia Labs nuclear engineer who takes over this week as head of the American Nuclear Society, has gotten a boost for his crusade for small nuclear reactors from one of the industry g...
...I'm increasingly drawn to British journalism which, thanks both to the Web and a friend's pass-along copies of the Economist, is increasingly easily available. Today's case study is from the Financial...
...Today's Albuquerque Pride. If you've never been, the parade's a delight.Win Quigley answers (sort of) a question I've long had: how much bang are we getting for our economic development dollars? The a...
...Steve Harris, writing in the New Mexico Independent, raised some questions today about what to me remains a puzzling governance model: the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority:Trudy J...
...One of New Mexico's most significant water rights conflicts, on the Pecos River, has been settled, state officials announced Friday evening.In an agreement filed in Fifth Judicial District Court in Ch...
...Over on Duke City Fix, Bosque Bill has a lovely post today about the Hairy woodpeckers that have taken up residence in his north Albuquerque neighborhood.The Hairy Woodpecker is a very attractive bird...
...Bradford Plumer, at TNR, sorts out the byzantine economics of how permits are allocated under the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade bill. Plumer notes a point often missed in the debate - the relatively low...
...Martin Heinrich took to the House floor last night (Wed. 6/10) to talk about renewable energy's benefits for New Mexico's economy: Among the talking points:
NM second biggest potential solar r...
...The Bureau of Land Management has scheduled hearings this month and next in Arizona and New Mexico on the proposed Sun Zia power transmission line.The power line is intended to carry power from solar ...
...A search of the Journal's library on the name "Julio Betancourt" yields 28 stories since the mid-1990s. It's not Pete Domenici or Marty Chavez territory, but he is almost certainly the most frequently...
...Jeff "60 Votes" Bingaman, our senior senator, is in the news these days as the quintessential coalition-builder tries to herd the Senate cats into the 60-vote majority needed to pass energy legislatio...
...I'm off tonight (Wed. 6/10) to hear Al Zelicoff (Journal energy tipster, but also a health care expert) talk about his new book, "More Harm than Good: Is Health Care Out Of Control?" New Mexicans for ...
Tuesday, June 30, 2009 Nuke Budgets Have a Way of Growing By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Maintaining old Cold War nukes has proven to be an expensive proposition. They're fiddly, highly optimized feats of human engineering designed to pack the largest, deadliest wallop into the smallest ... full story
Saturday, June 27, 2009 New Way To Harvest Sunlight By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The sunlight danced in and out of Albuquerque's clouds earlier this week as a pair of energy companies joined federal researchers to take the wraps off of a new solar technology. The technology ... full story
Friday, June 26, 2009 Lab Slow To Fix Fire Hazards By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The National Nuclear Security Administration and Los Alamos National Laboratory have been slow to fix fire safety problems identified in 2006, according to federal investigators. The delays “increased ... full story
Thursday, June 25, 2009 Here Come the Rains Again By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer Our summer rainy season, which has been creeping up on us since late May, appears to have arrived. Tuesday's thunderstorms over Albuquerque were "more 'monsoonish' than anything we've seen so far," said ... full story
Sunday, June 21, 2009 Getting a Lift By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The thing that makes the Colorado Plateau so beautiful has long been one of geology's great mysteries. You can see it looking west from White Mesa northwest of Albuquerque - beds of rock stacked one atop another ... full story
Friday, June 19, 2009 Water Monitoring Urged By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer New water sampling in the Rio Grande Valley's irrigation ditches has found traces of pharmaceuticals, and the activist group that made the discovery called for more careful water monitoring to ensure it is not a ... full story
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 Report: Climate Change Evident By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer The effects of human-caused climate change, in the form of rising temperatures and dwindling snowpacks, can already be seen in New Mexico and are likely to get worse as greenhouse gases rise, according ... full story
... referred to Tom D’Agostino as a Los Alamos Laboratory official. He is actually the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration. By John Fleck Journal Staff Writer A top federal nuclear official this week endorsed continued operation of a Los Alamos National Laboratory research ... full story
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