State funding helps Las Cruces launch heat pump program after federal funds fall through

State funding helps Las Cruces launch heat pump program after federal funds fall through

Marcus Crawford, the operations manager at the Community Action Agency of Southern New Mexico, helps out at an October 2024 Fix-It Fair to promote the city’s program to install heat pumps for low-income residents. (Courtesy of the City of Las Cruces)A Las Cruces project to cool the city’s hottest homes will move forward despite a loss of federal funds, with state funding providing a stopgap. City officials last June downscaled the project to ins…