By Bruce Melton The Thomas Fire, viewed from Via Real, just east of Lambert Road and the Bella Vista Polo Club, in Summerland, California, on December 11, 2017. (Photo: Doc Searls) How many more billions of dollars in damages will it take? How many more lives? It's obvious; all the climate extremes we have been experiencing lately [...]
Climate change initiatives were the most targeted by the Trump administration. Elizabeth Shogren NEWSDec. 28, 2017 President Donald Trump has spent the past year steadily undoing Obama-era environmental protections, especially rules designed to fight climate change. By law, agencies must go through a lengthy process to rescind or rewrite many rules, but executive orders and other policies [...]
By Andrew Oxford | The New Mexican Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state’s biggest utility, is poised to close the San Juan Generating Station in 2022 but does not want to lose too much money on its investment in the facility. How much would you be willing to pay for Public Service [...]
By Andrew Oxford State regulators on Wednesday agreed to allow Public Service Company of New Mexico to raise rates for electricity over the next two years, but they said the utility cannot ask consumers to foot the bill for tens of millions of dollars the company is spending to upgrade a coal power plant in [...]
By Emily Benson, High Country News Kristin Honig, courtesy of Valles Caldera National Preserve Thompson Ridge Fire as it approached the Cabin District on Valles Caldera in June, 2013, and the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew The Fourmile Canyon Fire, sparked by a backyard burn west of Boulder, Colorado, in 2010, caused $220 million in damage and destroyed [...]
Indigenous, Religious, and Local New Mexican Leaders Call on Senators Udall and Heinrich to Advance Fossil Fuel Transition for Region Contact: Rebecca Sobel, (267) 402-0724, rsobel@wildearthguardians.org Albuquerque, NM— Forty groups delivered a letter today to New Mexico’s U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich urging bold leadership to protect Indigenous rights and environmental justice as industrialized fracking continues [...]
Dec 18, 2017| By: PNA Staff https://projectnewamerica.com/latest/new-mexico-poll-likely-2018-general-election-voters-shows-new-mexicans-support-strong-state Today, The Majority Institute released the results of recent statewide research conducted in New Mexico that shows broad and deep support for new methane standards for the oil and gas industry. Key findings include: Strong and deep support exists for a new state rule to limit methane waste. Nearly two [...]
By Eleanor Bravo National Pipeline Campaign Manager Photos : Food & Water Watch After multiple lengthy meetings and hundreds of debates and public comments, the Sandoval County Commission finally voted last week to kill the dreaded Stoddard/Heil oil & gas ordinance that would have given a blank check to the drilling industry. With complete disregard for [...]
Three of 2016's extreme weather events would have been impossible without human-caused climate change, according to new research. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published a collection of papers Wednesday focused on examining the effect of climate change on 27 extreme weather events last year. The research found that climate change was a "significant driver" in 21 [...]
By Rebecca Moss | The New Mexican The Sandoval County Commission voted down a controversial oil and gas ordinance early Friday morning, following an outcry of opposition from residents and tribal representatives who said the proposed regulations would fail to protect water sources and the environment and would limit public input on future development projects. [...]