Posts by Myah Wilmarth
The Struggle for PFAS Pollution Accountability & Catching up with Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury
New Mexico’s environmental regulators learned from the Air Force in 2018 that it had contaminated local waters with PFAS from fire fighting foams used at Cannon and Holloman Air Force bases. Since that time, the state has been sued by the U.S. Department of Defense for trying to compel the military to clean up that…
Read MoreThe Line Dishes on the Heat, Cannabis Conflicts and Controversial Statues (Plus Juneteenth Extras!)
The Line opinion panel takes up a topic on everyone’s sweat-soaked brow this week: the unseasonably hot late-spring temperatures. Climate change and megafires to the west have combined to turn mid-June into a miserable slog for much of the state. With record-setting temperatures and prolonged drought conditions becoming the new normal, the question comes up as July…
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