By Dan Grossman January 17th should have been a positive milestone for Westerners and all Americans as limits on the unnecessary waste of American taxpayer-owned natural gas were slated to go into effect. Instead, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke, who has repeatedly shown that the least responsible companies in the oil and gas industry have [...]
Climate change is one of the great threats our natural world faces today, so why doesn’t the U.S. government track greenhouse gas emissions from federal fossil fuel production that occurs on public lands? The lack of effort to record and understand climate emissions is astounding given that the federal government is one of the largest energy asset managers in the world. Limited data leaves Americans, the owners of public lands and [...]
By Laura Paskus Michael Vadon, via Wikimedia Commons This week, the Trump administration announced it was imposing new tariffs on imported solar panels and modules—a move that will hit installation companies and consumers alike. But in the New Mexico State Legislature a trio of Democratic state representatives wants to give solar development in New Mexico a [...]
Wells left behind by industry threaten to overwhelm Western states. Joshua Zaffos In March 2015, Joe MacLaren, a state oil and gas inspector in Colorado, drove out to the Taylor 3 oil well near the tiny town of Hesperus, in the southwestern corner of the state. He found an entire checklist of violations. Atom Petroleum, [...]
by Bill McKibben The home of Wall Street announced on Wednesday that it will be divesting its massive pension fund from fossil fuels. That hits fossil fuel giants where it hurts Over the years, the capital of the fight against climate change has been Kyoto, or Paris – that’s where the symbolic political agreements to [...]
Tribal Groups, Businesses, Farms, Citizens File 120 Appeals to Stop Bureau of Land Management Plans to Auction Public Lands to Oil and Gas Industry Contact: Rebecca Sobel, (267) 402-0724, rsobel@wildearthguardians.org Santa Fe, NM -- Today WildEarth Guardians is declaring the number of administrative appeals, also called “protests,” received in response to the Bureau of Land Management’s [...]
More than 2 million New Mexicans depend on a safe and healthy environment to live a good life. They need clean water, air and soil to raise healthy children and create jobs. But New Mexico is struggling to deal with a variety of serious environmental problems that threaten public health, including air that has been [...]
By Steve Terrell | The New Mexican J.D Bullington, a lobbyist who represents more than 20 clients including Laguna Development Corporation and Union Pacific Railroad, stops to speak with Rep. Bill McCamley, D-Las Cruces, at the Capitol on Wednesday January 17, 2018. Gabriela Campos/The New Mexican Oil and gas industry revenues pay a huge share [...]
This week, we celebrated the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who led efforts toward creating a just, equal, and loving world. In a show of solidarity, we need you to take this message to your congressional delegates to uphold the principles of racial equality and environmental justice for ALL! If the coast [...]
Making it Go ‘Boom' Oil and Gas Association hopes to ride latest boom to increased power and popularity, while towns stretch By Elizabeth Miller Prompted by public outcry over a property owner's move to bulldoze an alfalfa field and turn it into an RV park, Eddy County commissioners spent half of 2017 drafting an ordinance [...]