New Mexico delegation introduces bill to ban uranium mining in Chama Watershed

By: Patrick Lohmann

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: August 6, 2026

Words: 527

Last Updated: 1 week, 5 days ago

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Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation on Thursday announced they’d introduced a bill that would prohibit uranium mining throughout the Chama Basin Watershed, after a Canadian company earlier this year sought federal permits to conduct exploratory drilling.

The Chama Basin Watershed Protection Act, sponsored by U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján and U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, all New Mexico Democrats, if enacted, would prohibit all forms of uranium mining through

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