By Andrew Oxford State regulators on Wednesday agreed to allow Public Service Company of New Mexico to raise rates for electricity over the next two years, but they said the utility cannot ask consumers to foot the bill for tens of millions of dollars the company is spending to upgrade a coal power plant in [...]
By Emily Benson, High Country News Kristin Honig, courtesy of Valles Caldera National Preserve Thompson Ridge Fire as it approached the Cabin District on Valles Caldera in June, 2013, and the Granite Mountain Hotshot crew The Fourmile Canyon Fire, sparked by a backyard burn west of Boulder, Colorado, in 2010, caused $220 million in damage and destroyed [...]
Indigenous, Religious, and Local New Mexican Leaders Call on Senators Udall and Heinrich to Advance Fossil Fuel Transition for Region Contact: Rebecca Sobel, (267) 402-0724, rsobel@wildearthguardians.org Albuquerque, NM— Forty groups delivered a letter today to New Mexico’s U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich urging bold leadership to protect Indigenous rights and environmental justice as industrialized fracking continues [...]
Dec 18, 2017| By: PNA Staff https://projectnewamerica.com/latest/new-mexico-poll-likely-2018-general-election-voters-shows-new-mexicans-support-strong-state Today, The Majority Institute released the results of recent statewide research conducted in New Mexico that shows broad and deep support for new methane standards for the oil and gas industry. Key findings include: Strong and deep support exists for a new state rule to limit methane waste. Nearly two [...]
By Eleanor Bravo National Pipeline Campaign Manager Photos : Food & Water Watch After multiple lengthy meetings and hundreds of debates and public comments, the Sandoval County Commission finally voted last week to kill the dreaded Stoddard/Heil oil & gas ordinance that would have given a blank check to the drilling industry. With complete disregard for [...]
Three of 2016's extreme weather events would have been impossible without human-caused climate change, according to new research. The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published a collection of papers Wednesday focused on examining the effect of climate change on 27 extreme weather events last year. The research found that climate change was a "significant driver" in 21 [...]
By Rebecca Moss | The New Mexican The Sandoval County Commission voted down a controversial oil and gas ordinance early Friday morning, following an outcry of opposition from residents and tribal representatives who said the proposed regulations would fail to protect water sources and the environment and would limit public input on future development projects. [...]
Bank announces in Paris it ‘will no longer finance upstream oil and gas’ after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change The One Planet Summit in Paris. The World Bank announcement delighted campaigners opposed to fossil fuels. Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images The World Bank will end its financial support for oil and gas extraction within [...]
By Susan Montoya Bryan | The Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE — Some of the biggest names in energy production in New Mexico have signed on to a national effort within the oil and gas industry to curb methane emissions as pressure mounts for states to enact more pollution laws. The move comes after the U.S. Interior [...]
After casting doubt on climate change for decades, skeptic consultants have turned their attention to air pollution by Jie Jenny Zou of the Center for Public Integrity On sunny days, when his classmates run out to play, Gabriel Rosales heads to the school nurse for a dose of Albuterol. The fine mist opens his airways, [...]