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Our Land: How Australia’s Bush Fires Might Inform New Mexico’s Upcoming Fire Season
April 10, 2020 – Our Land correspondent Laura Paskus sits down with Santa Fe National Forest firefighter Terrance Gallegos, who went to Australia to help combat the country’s recent unprecedented wildfires, which burned more than 72,000 square miles and destroyed some 6,000 buildings. Based on that experience, he looks ahead to New Mexico’s fire season. …
Read MoreEPA Rolls Back Regulations During Pandemic, Shifts Burden to States
As the country reels from the spread of the novel coronavirus, federal regulators say they can’t keep up with the enforcement of environmental laws. They’re also mounting a push-back campaign against press reports and lawmakers who questioned the new policy. Last Thursday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency emailed that because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic,…
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