In a first, federal environment officials today scientifically linked underground water pollution with hydraulic fracturing, concluding that contaminants found in central Wyoming were likely caused by the gas drilling process. The findings by the Environmental Protection Agency come partway through a separate national study by the agency to determine whether fracking presents a risk to [...]
"Shirley “Sug” McNall has become the black sheep among not only her family, but also the community in which she lives, and it’s not hard to see why. Her “Toxic Tour of Hell” exposes the ugly side of an industry her neighbors in San Juan County, N.M., desperately rely on to put food on the [...]
LIKE politics, weather can be a contentious subject, especially when you throw climate change into the mix. One view holds that no single storm or drought can be linked to climate change. The other argues that all such things are, in some sense, “caused” by climate change, because we have fundamentally altered the global climate [...]
"The wave could begin within days if Energy XXI Ltd., SandRidge Energy Inc. and Goodrich Petroleum Corp. fail to reach agreements with creditors and shareholders. Those are three of at least eight oil and gas producers that have announced missed debt payments, triggering a countdown to default." To read full article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-11/oil-boom-fueled-by-junk-debt-faces-19-billion-wave-of-defaults
What’s next? That’s the question climate activists had been asking since February 8th when the Supreme Court issued its shocking—and unexplained—one-page hold on the EPA’s Clean Power Plan (CPP). The CPP is an essential part of President Obama’s strategy for meeting the commitments made at the unprecedented United Nations climate agreement late last year in [...]
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 10, 2016 "......The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will begin developing regulations for methane emissions from existing oil and gas sources immediately and will move as expeditiously as possible to complete this process. Next month, EPA will start a formal process [...]
Government and industry lawyers faced off against environmental lawyers in federal court yesterday, arguing over whether a panel of judges should freeze oil and gas development near the Chaco Canyon region of northwest New Mexico. Western Environmental Law Center lawyer Kyle Tisdel kicked off the morning at the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in [...]
Mar 3, 2016 Press Release More than 130 Members of Congress join call for more than 50 percent of U.S. electricity to come from clean and carbon-free sources by 2030 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Congressman John K. Delaney (Md.-6) and Congressman Ben Luján (N.M.-3) have filed resolutions in the House and [...]
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Yesterday, the National Weather Service in Albuquerque Tweeted out a graph showing the dramatic rise in statewide temperatures between the late nineteenth century and today. NWS, Abq The National Weather Service in Albuquerque Tweeted out a graph showing the dramatic rise in statewide mean temperatures between the late nineteenth century and today. NWS meteorologist Deirdre [...]