ALBUQUERQUE – The Public Service Company of New Mexico is issuing two requests for information on energy resources and emerging technologies that could help the company toward its carbon-free goal.

According to a press release PNM sent out on March 22, the first request will help identify potential future generation resources that PNM could place into service in the 2028 to 2033 timeframe. Through this request, the company will collect information on resources that PNM could pursue to install up to 600 milliwatts of generating resources.

This Future Generation request for information is designed to encourage resources that have long-lead development activities so they are ready to...

SANTA FE – Attorney General Hector Balderas announced a $1.7 million settlement with Livingston Hearing Aid Centers, a Texas-based hearing aid retailer with locations throughout New Mexico, on March 23.

Balderas’s Consumer and Environmental Protection Division led the effort to investigate Livingston’s business practices, resulting in an agreement that distributes $1.4 million in restitution to hundreds of defrauded consumers and secures $300,000 worth of free hearing aids and other assistance for at-risk populations throughout the state.

“This settlement serves as a warning to others that take advantage of our most vulnerable, especially those that are poor, elderly, or who...

The Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Robert A. Whitaker, MPH, MBA, will serve as Chief Executive Officer, beginning April 15.  This announcement comes after the months-long coordinated recruitment effort between the RMCHCS Board of Trustees and Community Hospital Consulting.

The announcement comes on the heels of demands made by McKinley County commissioners. One of which was to find a full-time CEO or else face losing their lease with the county.

Hiring a CEO is at the top of the checklist of things that the commission and county officials wanted the hospital to make a reality in order to keep their lease going with the...

Hornet Sex Traps

The invasive Asian giant hornet that has in recent years ravaged honeybee hives in parts of British Columbia and Washington could possibly be wiped out for good with “sex traps” developed by U.S. and Chinese researchers. Writing in the journal Current Biology, they say key ingredients in the sex pheromones of the “murder hornets” can be put into traps, luring the males from the queens and preventing them from mating. Test traps have proven successful, attracting only males. “In two field seasons, we were able to rapidly collect thousands of males that were attracted to the odor,” said biologist and co-author James Nieh.



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