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06.18.26

WASHINGTON – During a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to conduct oversight of the Colorado River Basin, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), the Committee’s Ranking Member, questioned…

06.18.26

SunZia is one of the largest energy infrastructure projects in the Western Hemisphere and will generate affordable, American-made energy and invest billions of dollars across New Mexico   WASHINGTON — U.S….

06.17.26

WASHINGTON – Today, during a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee business meeting to consider pending legislation, the Committee advanced S. 1547, the America the Beautiful Act, bipartisan legislation…

06.17.26

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Andy Kim (D-N.J.) hosted a roundtable to discuss how the…

06.11.26

Heinrich: “This is going to be one of the major conservation battles of this Congress”  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and…

06.10.26

WASHINGTON — During a business meeting on the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee to consider pending legislation, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Committee, criticized…

06.09.26

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, led ten Senate Democrats in sending a letter to U.S. Department…

06.05.26

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)…

06.04.26

Video Here WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement ahead of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM)’s…

05.29.26

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released a new fact sheet that details how much families save…

05.22.26

Letter follows President Trump’s claims of “fake inflation,” as Americans struggle to pay more than $4 a gallon for gasoline   Read the letter here  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich…

05.18.26

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (ENR), released the following statement in response to the Senate’s confirmation…

05.15.26

WASHINGTON – During a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine the Trump administration’s Budget Request for the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Fiscal Year 2027 (FY27), U.S….

05.13.26

In opening statement during hearing to examine President Trump’s FY27 budget request, Heinrich emphasizes danger of reorganizing firefighting efforts and defunding programs during wildfire season  Video here   WASHINGTON – During…

05.01.26

Heinrich to Burgum: “If permitting reform is a priority, the permitting system has to work. And if you want members of my Caucus to support permitting reform, we have to know that balls and strikes…

04.30.26

In opening statement during hearing to examine President Trump’s FY27 budget request, Heinrich emphasizes administration’s disregard for our national parks, our public lands, accounting of our nation’s history, our wildlife,…

04.27.26

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), and U.S. Representatives Teresa Leger Fernández (D-N.M.), Melanie Stansbury…

04.22.26

WASHINGTON – During a U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing to examine the Trump administration’s budget request for the Department of Energy (DOE) Fiscal Year 2027 (FY 27), U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking…

04.22.26

Heinrich grills Wright on partisan leadership at the Department of Energy, details how Wright’s leadership has led to higher costs for working families  Heinrich on Department’s decisions to cancel energy projects: “Satisfying a President’s…

04.20.26

WASHINGTON – Earlier this month, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senator Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate…

04.16.26

Senate Republicans pass measure that will allow Chilean mining company to pollute Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, ignoring the will of the American people  WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.),…

04.16.26

Heinrich: “This is an issue of our heritage. It’s an issue of our inheritance. And it’s an issue for Minnesota, but it’s not just an issue for Minnesota. It is an issue for our nation. It’s about something bigger.” …

04.15.26

Heinrich: “Many, like Dolores Huerta, feared that speaking up would enable those who have always opposed the farmworkers movement to erase it, along with Cesar Chavez… The movement Dolores Huerta…

04.15.26

WASHINGTON — Yesterday, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Chris Wright demanding answers on whether the Department sufficiently prepared for the…

04.08.26

The legislation aims to improve federal support for WIPP–related road infrastructure  WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and U.S. Senator James Risch…