New story: TL;DR - #cattle ranching family blindsided by a change in their relationship with the massive company that pulls #oil and #gas from their lands. Spills, bad roads and spoiled hunts ensue. Also a lesson in the split estate. capitalandmain.com/the-david-vs... @capitalandmain.bsky.social

“I mean, hell, the country’s making [them] just very, very wealthy. Why would you not put a little bit back into what you tear up?” ~Richard Hodgson, rancher, Rio Arriba County In this tough story, Redfern puts a very human face on NM landowners fighting Big Oil. capitalandmain.com/the-david-vs...

File under: reasons to not be a teetotaler: Source: CBS News search.app/ip5xB

A natural gas producer is suing @capitalandmain.bsky.social over the story "Pennsylvania Gas Driller: Our Operations Pose No Health Risk. You Can’t Be Serious, Activists Say." capitalandmain.com/pennsylvania...

Worth reading:

Gray-Lipped RFK Jr. Touts Body’s Natural Ability To Transmute Lead Into Gold

Juan González, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, lived in Pasadena for three decades before a wildfire, heart attack and ICE raids got him thinking about “self-deporting” back to Mexico.

Um, where you gonna get that #hydrogen? LA says it will shift its largest gas power plant to hydrogen - LA Times share.google/wx8XNsBnDCST...

Bat bombs to the rescue in #NewMexico

I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct" www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/c...

From #NewMexico:

Bill Gates sure picked an interesting day to downplay the threat of climate change

IRL catches up with Kim Stanley Robinson... heatmap.news/climate-tech...

You can't not like this:

Colorado oil and gas companies used toxic chemicals prohibited under state law in operations involving dozens of wells on either side of the Rocky Mountains over at least the last 18 months, a Capital & Main investigation found. capitalandmain.com/oil-and-gas-...

May this be a reminder to NTEC that coal is a dying industry. Why invest in something that will cost the #NavajoNation millions when we could invest in sustainable and renewable solutions like wind and solar? apnews.com/article/trum...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Water drugs?

Here's a real corker: the #wine industry employs more people than does the #coal industry

Long-term improvement in statewide school nutrition could be especially important in poorer school districts and lower-income neighborhoods, where ultraprocessed foods are everywhere — and fresh, healthy food is harder to find or more expensive. capitalandmain.com/california-m...

Immigrants in ICE custody are being transferred to facilities further away from family and their lawyers. One group of detainees ended up in Alaska, where prison guards pepper sprayed them after one man asked for a phone call. Story by @bgirledukate.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/ice-is-trans...

Here's an interesting thing via @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Wherein I interview a one-time #Texas oilman and learn about the massive mess left behind when his company collapsed. It's also a glimpse into how oil wells get orphaned and how New Mexico may be on the hook for $1.6 billion in cleanup costs in coming years. capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-...

In case you missed this earlier ...

Here's a thing...

After federal judges began pushing back on efforts to detain people at hearings, ICE has strapped ankle monitors to many immigrants leaving court in an apparent shift in policy to increase the surveillance of immigrants. Story by @bgirledukate.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/ice-is-putti...

One of Los Angeles’ most polluted stretches of land will soon be cleared for new development, and a full accounting of the ground’s degradation will be left largely to an oil company. In some areas, the contaminated underground layer is 16+ feet thick. capitalandmain.com/theres-a-lak...

The National Weather Service was hit hard by DOGE-related cuts earlier this year. Now, key weather forecast offices in California will remain “criminally understaffed” while new hires get on board this fire season, former NWS meteorologists warn. capitalandmain.com/national-wea...

National Weather Service Grand Forks explaining there’s no threat for tsunami impacts in North Dakota, a landlocked state

iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/

New story up @capitalandmain.bsky.social about old oil wells being used as water wells on the #Navajo Nation. And the #EPA has known about them for years. Check out the photos below if you're in a hurry... capitalandmain.com/on-the-navaj...

Old oil wells on the Navajo Nation reservation continue to spew chemical-laden water. Federal agencies have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up. #NewMexico #NavajoNation capitalandmain.com/on-the-navaj...

#LAPD arrested journalist Anthony Orendorff while he was documenting an immigration raid. This is part of a larger trend that could spell more trouble for press rights. Producers: Maison Tran, Jeremy Lindenfeld, Cerise Castle Cameras: Maison Tran, Jeremy Lindenfeld Editor: Jeremy Lindenfeld

#Supersexymagafauna get a win in #Senegal news.mongabay.com/2025/06/firs...

Just - holy cow. And yet, these stories keep coming and coming. capitalandmain.com/heres-whats-...

Powell says the Fed was prepared to keep cutting interest rates until Trump implementing tariffs that will increase inflation

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. But the researchers working to prevent those deaths received layoff notices after Trump took office. capitalandmain.com/a-coal-miner...

A week ago I wrote about NM's Gov declaring an emergency without declaring an emergency: capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-... Today she actually declared an emergency: www.governor.state.nm.us/wp-content/u... For the record, this emergency-emergency is happening b/c of the things I wrote a week ago

Something to read and ponder as some protest and others prostrate themselves. A lot of presidents left a lot to be desired: nativenewsonline.net/currents/us-...

Wait - what?

A week ago @govmlg.bsky.social announced that the fire season is looking bad, but didn't say why. Here's why: "Climate change is making things worse,” said Dave DuBois, New Mexico’s state climatologist. Latest for @capitalandmain.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-...

“Our forests are at a dire risk. That is part of climate change. That is daunting to think about." A warming climate — fueled in part by New Mexico's oil and gas production — has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder, reports @jfern.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-...

Well, that went poorly. Five months is longer than some Vegas marriages, but the fallout from this odd coupling has left broken agencies and - literally - bodies all over the world. @marcusbaram.bsky.social tallies the damage

Before winning first place in two events at the California Interscholastic League's Track & Field Championships, AB Hernandez read social media posts from adults protesting her participation. @cerisecastle.bsky.social caught up with one outside the stadium.

Holy cow this story. It's short. You should watch it.

@marcusbaram.bsky.social has a #DOGE update from #Texas and Musk's new backyard. via @capitalandmain.bsky.social

A company that spent 4 years lobbying to put a #hydrogen pipeline across the #NavajoNation changed its mind, switched the plan to #naturalgas, and apparently didn't tell some important people of the change capitalandmain.com/many-on-nava... My latest at @capitalandmain.bsky.social

The project also drew sharp skepticism on and off the Navajo Nation, where more than a century of industrial mineral extraction and production has failed to produce widespread economic benefits to residents. Story by @jfern.bsky.social capitalandmain.com/many-on-nava...