By Jessica Kutz, High Country News Andrew Wheeler is the new acting chief administrator of the EPA, following the resignation of Scott Pruitt. Wheeler is a former coal lobbyist for Murray Energy and aide to Republican Sen. James Inhofe, a fossil fuels advocate. Andrew Wheeler, a former coal and uranium mining lobbyist, has been named the [...]

By The Associated Press FARMINGTON – Navajo Transitional Energy Company has acquired a 7 percent ownership interest in units 4 and 5 of the Four Corners Power Plant. NTEC purchased the partial ownership from an affiliate of Arizona Public Service, which operates the coal-fired power plant. The energy company is owned by the Navajo Nation. NTEC [...]

I’ve had the honor of working for fiscal conservatives like the late Senator Pete Domenici -- budget hawks that put the wise management of our resources above special-interest politics. That’s why I know there is nothing conservative about the waste of millions of dollars every year in New Mexico revenue due to leaked, vented and [...]

BY Sharon Kelly  DeSmogBlog Each year, oil and gas industry operations in the US are leaking roughly 60 percent more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, into our atmosphere than previous estimates from the US Environmental Protection Agency, which relied heavily on self-reporting by the industry. That’s the conclusion of a study published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Science and conducted with funding from the [...]

(Photo: Daily Times file photo) An appeal is likely in the lawsuit brought against the Bureau of Land Management, part of a long-running dispute over management of the land around the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, according to an attorney for the plaintiffs. A federal judge last month tossed a lawsuit against the federal government [...]

Citizen Solidarity at Both Ends of a Proposed U.S. “Fukushima Freeway” Californians learn that the two industries which most threaten human survival are facing off in New Mexico's 'Nuclear Alley.' By James Heddle   Target: ‘Nuclear Alley,’ New Mexico Recently – un-reported in the scandal/crisis-pre-occupied American main stream media – New Mexico has become the [...]

BY Katherine O’Donnell Today, the Stop Competitive Power Ventures (CPV) campaign, the long-standing fight against fracked gas in New York State, is generating a lot of heat, from weekly local vigils and arrests at the state capitol, to political races for attorney general, state senate and governor. In November, Stop CPV defense attorney Michael Sussman will run for New York [...]

BY MARK OSWALD JOURNAL NORTH EDITOR Environmentalists cheer ' precedent-setting ' ruling from U. S. district judge A U. S. district judge has overruled the Bureau of Land Management's Management's approval of oil and gas leases on more than 19,000 acres in the Santa Fe Nation - all National Forest along the San Pedro Mountains [...]

By Andy Stiny  In a victory for conservation groups, a federal judge on Thursday rejected a government finding that no significant environmental impact would occur if hydraulic fracturing were used in drilling for oil or gas on 13 leased parcels in the Four Corners area. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management proposed hydraulic fracturing and [...]

By Elizabeth Miller Take a look at most oil and gas infrastructure — wellheads, pipes and cylindrical storage tanks — dotting New Mexico oil and gas fields, and little seems to be happening. But use the right equipment and you can see gases, including methane, wafting into the air. Heading skyward with methane, the main component [...]