Take Action: Speak Out Against Lease Sale in Greater Chaco It’s time to speak out in defense of Greater Chaco again. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington and Rio Puerco field offices in northwestern New Mexico continue to allow oil and gas companies to frack without a plan in the Greater Chaco region. Once [...]
BY REP. ANGELICA RUBIO / LAS CRUCES DEMOCRAT There’s a lot on the table as New Mexico moves into a new legislative session under the helm of our new governor, including several issues related to oil and gas. State leaders will be looking at ways to address climate change and the impacts on our state as [...]
By Rebecca Moss | rmoss@sfnewmexican.com The low level of the water line is evident on the banks of the Colorado River in May in Hoover Dam, Ariz. States in the river’s lower basin, including Arizona, have pulled millions more acre-feet from the river than they are due. AP file photo It was snowing in Salt [...]
By Rebecca Moss | rmoss@sfnewmexican.com When you’re driving at night through Counselor, on U.S. 550, the horizon takes on a dusky illumination, almost like daylight, Samuel Sage said during a Monday news conference in Santa Fe. Bright light flares from natural gas being burned off as part of oil and gas production, which has become [...]
Hannah Grover Competing measures would tax industry at higher. lower rates Buy PhotoA flare stack at the San Juan Processing Plant is pictured Friday in Kirtland. (Photo: Hannah Grover/The Daily Times) FARMINGTON — San Juan Basin legislators are pushing bills that would impact how much revenue the oil and gas industry provides to the state. Rep. James Strickler, [...]
On behalf of our 35 #MethaneMattersNM sponsors, CAVU would like to thank Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham for leading the charge in state-level#methanecapture and emissions reduction! Show your support for #climateaction in New Mexico at methanemattersnm.org and check out our full-page ad in today's The Santa Fe New Mexican! 35 (and counting!) organizations and business supporting state-level methane rules: CAVU Center for Civic Policy Center of [...]
By Andrew Oxford New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs an executive order for state agencies to aggressively pursue strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions Tuesday in Santa Fe, flanked by student activists on global warming. The order endorses goals of the 2015 Paris climate agreement and sets in motion new efforts to encourage renewable [...]
(Washington Post Staff Illustration) By Dan Zak What does it mean to be alive right now? Right now. Right this second, right this epoch, as mankind alters the Earth beyond recognition. In Arizona, in the summer, the pinyon pines don’t smell like they used to, says Nikki Cooley, and the wind sometimes feels in error, like it’s [...]
BY KEVIN ROBINSON-AVILA / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Methane is flared in March 2018 at a natural gas gathering facility west of Jal in southeastern New Mexico. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal) ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The blue wave that swept November’s state elections is rapidly turning green as newly installed state officials prepare sweeping reforms in New Mexico’s [...]
By Andrew Oxford, Santa Fe New Mexican By early April of 2018, the state's largest river, the Rio Grande, had already dried south of Albuquerque. Walk around the Capitol, and much of the talk is about an oil boom that is buoying the state’s finances, providing more money for schools and whatever else. But for [...]