All the headlines from our Mexico Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 27 2013 // The 2013 Atlantic season has delivered the fewest hurricanes since 1982, U.S. forecasters said, despite their predictions in May that it would be a busier than normal year.Forecasters had predicted 13 to 20 named Atlantic...
Nov 25 2013 // A watchdog group has filed a lawsuit seeking the release of nuclear safety records for Sandia National Laboratories.The suit filed Friday in federal court in Albuquerque alleges the National Nuclear Security Administration...
Nov 25 2013 // One New Mexico county and the Navajo Nation have been added to a federal disaster declaration that stemmed from severe storms and flooding this past summer.Federal officials say Sierra County and the Navajo Nation are now...
Nov 19 2013 // After pioneering the cultivation of corn thousands of years ago, Mexico must overcome the weight of history to give the go-ahead to allow genetically modified strains into its fields.Religion, culture and science are...
Nov 13 2013 // Liberty Mutual Insurance said it will acquire Mexican surety company Primero Fianzas from Grupo Valores Operativos Monterrey, a private investor group.The company said the acquisition will enable Liberty Mutual Surety, a...
Nov 8 2013 // Insurance companies in New Mexico must provide same-sex married couples with the same discounts and benefits offered to opposite-sex married couples, the state insurance regulator announced Wednesday.Insurance...
Oct 9 2013 // Impact Forecasting, the catastrophe model development center of excellence at Aon Benfield, has released its latest monthly Global Catastrophe Recap report for September, which tallied the economic costs for the month at...
Oct 8 2013 // Lawyers for BP Plc and the federal government sparred on Monday over the methods competing teams of scientists used to estimate the size of the company’s 2010 oil spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.U.S. District Judge...
Oct 7 2013 // After days of slowing moving toward the Gulf Coast, the storm system Karen dissipated over the weekend.The National Hurricane Center in Miami says that as of Sunday morning, only remnants of Karen remained, and were moving...
Oct 7 2013 // In the frantic days after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP lied about how much oil was leaking from its Macondo well and took too long to cap it, plaintiffs’ lawyers said at the opening of the second phase of...
Oct 3 2013 // Tropical Storm Karen may bring more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) of rain, isolated tornadoes and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast, where it is expected to go ashore over the weekend, forecasters said.Karen, with top...
Oct 3 2013 // BP Plc persuaded an appeals court to order a re-examination of key terms of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil-spill settlement that the company said could have cost it billions of dollars in improper payouts.BP said the...
Oct 2 2013 // President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for parts of New Mexico for June storms and flooding.The Federal Emergency Management Agency says that federal disaster aid is being made available to supplement...
Oct 1 2013 // In the frantic days after the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP lied about how much oil was leaking from its Macondo well and took too long to cap it, plaintiffs’ lawyers said on Monday at the opening of the second...
Sep 30 2013 // President Barack Obama has signed a disaster declaration for New Mexico’s Santa Clara Pueblo.Friday’s move frees up federal aid to supplement the tribe’s efforts in the area affected by severe storms and...
Sep 27 2013 // BP will battle to hold down fines that could hit $18 billion in a new phase of the Gulf of Mexico trial that will rule on how much oil it spilled in 2010 and judge its efforts to plug its well.Starting on Monday in New...
Sep 27 2013 // Regulators determined to let Mexican trucks on U.S. roads under a trade deal have downplayed safety shortcomings with companies in a border-crossing pilot program, according to safety, trucking and labor groups.Trucking...
Sep 25 2013 // The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season is humbling forecasters by shaping up as the first in almost two decades without a major storm, confounding predictions that it would be more active than normal.It’s been two weeks...
Sep 24 2013 // Recent flooding brought widespread damage to New Mexico, but the rain also provided significant relief for the state’s drought.Some places, like Albuquerque, are still well short of their 36-month rainfall average,...
Sep 23 2013 // It could be a while before the exact amount of damage from recent heavy rain and flooding in New Mexico will be known, officials said.Counties are submitting preliminary flood damage estimates to the Federal Emergency...