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New Mexico environmental officials said Monday that they plugged a record number of abandoned oil and gas wells in 2025. They told lawmakers at an interim legislative committee meeting that Biden-era grants enabled much of the work.

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The Survivors' Truth Commission will hold its next public meeting at the Roundhouse Wednesday afternoon to present an interim report on its findings to date and next steps in its investigative work. The commission was previously known as the Epstein Truth Commission and is a bipartisan investigative subcommittee of the New Mexico House of Representatives. 

The state task force examining public records laws has been holding meetings across the New Mexico this summer and will meet at Santa Fe Community College on Tuesday. Reports from the New Mexico Municipal League and the City of Albuquerque show that records requests have more than doubled since 2020.

Congratulations, you’ve made it through another week. If you didn’t have time to keep up with the news this week, KSFR has got you covered. 

Here’s a look back at a few of the stories we’ve been following.

"Connection with place scratches" at the surface of the meaning behind "querencia." The audio component of the exhibit begins with a definition by Leffler's friend Enrique la Madrid-- 
"Querencia is a folk concept. It's a sense of belonging. It's a sense of rootedness. Querencia is the place where you know you belong. Sometimes it's the place where you're born. It's mobile. You can develop a new querencia in a new place. But how do you set down roots in a new place? There's many ways of doing that, of becoming part of a new place."

Stay tuned for parts two and three of this series. 

The group held the rally on the last day of a public comment period regarding Trump administration threats to protections around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park.

Today is the last day you can leave public comment regarding the Trump administration's plans to diminish or remove protections around the Chaco Canyon area. And, while many citizens have spoken out against a proposed Blackstone and PNM merger, one group favors private equity buying the state's largest electric utility- union leaders. 

Hello, happy Friday and thanks for tuning in to KSFR News. You’re listening to In Case You Missed It, where we look back at some of the week’s biggest news stories.

The All Pueblo Council of Governors traveled to Washington DC to voice their concerns over federal threats to Chaco Canyon. Former state Attorney General Hector Balderas explained why his office honored a federal request to drop its Zorro Ranch investigation in 2019, and a deeper look at maternal mortality rates in New Mexico. 

Former NM AG Hector Balderas reveals why he complied with a 2019 federal request to end an investigation at Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch, candidates for Navajo Nation president advance and more.

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