2024 Legislature Update & Climate Care for the Public
This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Gwyneth Doland catches up with elected officials in Santa Fe and speaks to Democratic state representatives Andrea Romero, G. Andrés Romero and Sen. Benny Shendo Jr., about alternative energy and school graduation bills.
Then, senior producer Lou DiVizio sits down with Source New Mexico Editor Shaun Griswold and Republican former state representative Justine Fox-Young to discuss which bills have passed, which haven’t and what still might get through the Roundhouse. First, the roundtable examines the fate of the governor’s favored public safety bills. In the second half of their discussion, Lou asks why the governor’s public education goals are receiving bipartisan pushback from lawmakers who represent small school districts.
In 2021, Project ECHO at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center began a climate program with web-based trainings on health care decarbonizing, climate justice and health equity. Dr. Joanna Katzman directs Project ECHO’s Public Health Initiatives and she talks about the importance of training health care professionals to recognize how climate change affects patient health — and how to find solace for their own climate anxiety.
Host: Lou DiVizio
Segments:
2024 Legislature Update: Alternative Energy & School Graduation Bills
Correspondent: Gwyneth Doland
Guests: Rep. Andrea Romero (D), Santa Fe
Rep. G. Andrés Romero (D), Albuquerque
Sen. Benny Shendo (D), Jemez Pueblo
Public Safety Bills at the 2024 Roundhouse
Correspondent: Lou DiVizio
Guests: Justine Fox-Young, attorney and Republican former state legislator
Shaun Griswold, editor, Source NM
Climate Care for the Public
Correspondent: Laura Paskus
Guest: Dr. Joanna Katzman, director of Project ECHO’s Public Health Initiatives, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
School Hours Amendment, Tribal Education Trust Fund Introduced in Santa Fe
Correspondent: Lou DiVizio
Guests: Justine Fox-Young, attorney and Republican former state legislator
Shaun Griswold, editor, Source NM