By Laura Paskus Laura Paskus The Rio Grande north of Albuquerque. Even in a year with good snowpack, Elephant Butte Reservoir is still low downstream. “I’m openly skeptical we’ll ever be able to fill Elephant Butte Reservoir again,” Dr. David Gutzler told attendees of a recent climate change conference. That’s given the trend toward diminished flows in [...]

Mike Soraghan, E&E News reporter A pumpjack atop a Silver Creek Oil & Gas well in Hughes County, Okla. Mike Soraghan/E&E News HOLDENVILLE, Okla. — It's no longer just environmentalists who suspect hydraulic fracturing is contaminating groundwater. Oil companies here in Oklahoma — ones that produce from older vertical wells — have raised that prospect as [...]

John Arthur Smith. New Mexican file photo Local governments in energy-rich areas of New Mexico are losing millions of dollars in revenue because oil and gas companies aren’t telling county tax officials about thousands of miles of natural gas pipelines and hundreds of compressors, drilling rigs and other equipment, an appraisal expert says. Jerry L. [...]

  Published October 21, 2017 NCAI sends a strong message to federal government on energy development and its impact on tribes and cultural sites. MILWAUKEE – The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) voted Friday to approve a resolution calling for a moratorium on oil and gas drilling in the San Juan Basin in northwest New [...]

Photo: WildEarth Guardians/Creative Commons (Flickr) JULIE MCNAMARA, ENERGY ANALYST | Change is coming to New Mexico. As recently as 2011, coal accounted for more than 70 percent of in-state electricity generation; now it’s under 60 percent, and falling fast. Coal simply cannot compete in the face of cleaner, cheaper resources coming online. But with this change comes opportunity. [...]

Don’t let the deniers fool you. Fighting climate change isn’t futile. By Stephen Stromberg President Trump speaks about the U.S. role in the Paris climate change accord in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington earlier this year. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Associated Press) It’s one of the most frequent justifications for abandoning President Barack Obama’s [...]

By Laura Paskus Drilling already occurs in northern Sandoval County, but tensions rose after an exploratory well was proposed for near Rio Rancho two years ago. Sandoval County’s attempts to plan for oil and gas development continue to draw heated criticism. At their October 19 meeting, county commissioners pulled a proposed ordinance from the agenda, but [...]

By Alexandra Merlino / New Mexico Field Representative, Mom’s Clean Air Force Recently over a hundred people arrived in Durango, Colo., to discuss the huge methane “hot spot” hovering over the Four Corners region.The methane plume – first discovered by NASA scientists in 2014 – is roughly the size of the state of Delaware and is [...]

Court Orders BLM to “Immediately Reinstate” Waste Prevention Standard “In Its Entirety” (San Francisco – October 4, 2017) A U.S. District Court judge ruled today that Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s abrupt suspension of protections that reduce the waste of natural gas on public and tribal lands was “arbitrary and capricious and in violation” [...]

The findings suggests U.S. oil may be more dependent on subsidies than previously thought. The subsidies could also undermine international climate goals. BY NEELA BANERJEE A new study determined that the impact of federal and state subsidies could increase domestic oil production by 17 billion barrels over the next few decades, producing enough oil to put [...]