"What are the changes you think could make it easier for organizations and communities to apply and manage those grants?"
"Our Tribes and Pueblos are working to address the impacts of climate change, to maintain and revitalize our traditional agricultural practices, to restore and to repatriate sacred lands and traditiona..."
"Each case number represents a life and a story and a tear in the fabric of our communities."
"I request that the committee authorize an additional $5 million for the Tribal Partnership Program."
"As we consider the 2022 Water Resources Development Act, many of you know, our West and our communities across the Southwest are gripped by the worst drought that we have seen in 1,200 years."
"I urge that the committee consider authorizing an additional $200 million to the Bureau of Reclamation."
"We also ask that the committee consider including funding for our acequia resilience and Tribal acequia program."
"Our dairies in particular, and the dairy industry, as one of our leading agricultural industries, has been just devastated. Thousands of gallons of milk have been dumped, and people's livelihoods have..."
"It's just so urgent that expedite this research and development, and then expedite the cleanup of these communities."
"PFAS has also been detected in water bodies throughout our State, and we are just beginning to scratch the surface in understanding the full picture of this contamination, the fate and transport of th..."
"Given the impacts of PFAS in our communities, and communities across the country, and particularly in New Mexico, it's vital that we advance coordination and advanced science and research on the impac..."