"A new first-in-the-nation law will shield residents from arrest as they use direct action to stop fracking-wastewater injection wells. "A tiny community sitting on a 27-square-mile piece of Western Pennsylvania wanted to send a big message to the energy company planning to deposit toxic fracking wastewater under its neighborhoods. And its 700 residents wanted it [...]
Higher Baseline Plus Year-on-Year Increase Make Sector the Top Emitter over Ag "The oil and natural gas industry has moved into first place as the highest sources of U.S. methane emissions, according to a long-awaited inventory published today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The report, which measures emissions from 1990 through 2014, reveals that [...]
The Arsonists of Fort McMurray Have a Name by Martin Lukacs "Fossil fuel corporations are causing the climate change fuelling mega-fires – and they should be footing the bill for the devastation A charred vehicle and homes are pictured in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, May 9, 2016 after wildfires forced [...]
LAS CRUCES MAYOR KEN MIYAGISHIMA-CITY OF LAS CRUCES PHOTO Today, Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima and Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales joined 68 mayors and county commissioners, 7 from New Mexico, to send a letter to President Barack Obama and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator, Gina McCarthy urging them to take action on dangerous methane pollution from new and [...]
Albuquerque, NM - "Today, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized the first nationwide safeguards limiting dangerous methane pollution from new and modified sources in the oil and gas industry. These standards are projected to reduce 460,000 metric tons of methane pollution per year by 2025 – the equivalent of 11 coal-fired power plants – and save [...]
via Sierra Club - BREAKING: Today the EPA finalized standards for dangerous oil and gas methane pollution from new infrastructure. These are the first-ever national safeguards limiting methane pollution and will go far to protect public health and address climate change. We support the EPA’s new public health standards that cut methane pollution and act [...]
Joby Warrick/Washington Post file - Service roads crisscross the high desert near the Chaco Culture National Historical Park where oil and gas companies are drilling. "A May 5 deadline to determine whether to postpone an oil and gas lease sale on sacred land near Chaco Canyon passed without a decision. A May 5 deadline to determine whether [...]
By Elizabeth Kolbert "A helicopter flies past a wildfire in Fort McMurray, Alberta, on Wednesday. The blaze has spread though an area covering more than three hundred miles. The town of Fort McMurray, some four hundred miles north of Calgary, in Canada, grew up very quickly on both sides of the Athabasca River. During the [...]
SANTA FE, NM — In a bid to protect New Mexico's water, air, and climate, a coalition of environmental groups filed suit yesterday challenging the Obama administration's plan to allow fracking in the Santa Fe National Forest. The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service auctioned more than 20,000 acres of oil and gas [...]
"DENVER—Oil and gas companies in New Mexico were responsible for 1,477 reported oil, gas, and other chemical spills in 2015, according to the New Mexico Toxic Release Tracker released today by the Center for Western Priorities. The new analysis, which summarizes public spills data from the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division, finds that oil and [...]