For Immediate Release: Why is the county spending $62,000 to pay for an oil and gas resource assessment of Sandoval County if it does not plan to use it? In July 2016, the county entered into an agreement <https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1-IQqdy-Tq7Lfovma5hXKE5pPUjstbzR8> with New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology costing taxpayers $62,009.07. Services include assessing potential oil [...]

Fracking and Health: Ask an Expert HEALTH SYMPTOMS REPORTED BY PEOPLE LIVING NEAR FRACKING SITES In our latest podcast, TEDX asks: “How can advocacy groups address health symptoms in fracked communities?” Listen to this 10 minute podcast as Dr. Beth Weinberger, researcher and public health consultant with the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project, describes her recent study on [...]

Secretary Ryan Zinke will be known better for cynicism than conservationism. by Jonathan Thompson  In 1921, President Warren G. Harding, R, at the behest of the oil barons who financed his election, appointed Albert Bacon Fall to be his secretary of the Interior. Fall had vowed not only to transfer all public lands to private [...]

By Rebecca Moss A town hall meeting at the Pena Blanca gymnasium will be held at 2 p.m. today. A Sandoval County commissioner says a proposed ordinance for the county would, “by deliberate design,” promote oil and gas development but fail to protect groundwater and drinking water in the region and should not become law. In a [...]

By Laura Paskus U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee On Thursday, the Trump administration continued to make its priorities clear when it comes to industry, the environment and climate change. Just days after President Donald Trump and U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary announced changes to national [...]

The Associated Press LOVING, N.M. (AP) -- A Houston-based energy company says it's investigating what caused one of its natural gas pipelines to rupture, explode and catch fire in southeastern New Mexico's oil patch. Spokesman Rick Rainey of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. says the incident early Wednesday morning in a sparsely populated rural area south [...]

'As close as the US gets to Egypt’s pyramids': how Chaco Canyon is endangered by drilling Irreplaceable cultural resources in New Mexico are among those areas targeted for expedited drilling – and conservationists say it’s ‘like losing pages and chapters of that history book’  View of the ancient Anasazi settlement of Pueblo Bonito in Chaco [...]

 SundayReview | OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR By RICHARD MOE A rare circular structure at Pueblo Del Arroyo, a “great house” in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico. CreditGabriella Marks for The New York Times Santa Fe, N.M. — In the remote high desert of northwestern New Mexico lie the threatened ruins of Chaco Canyon, arguably the most significant cultural [...]

by FRANCES MADESON In the airless fourth floor hearing room where the body charged with regulating public utilities operating in New Mexico meets to conduct its public business, special rules apply: the Sun revolves around the Earth, which is flat by the way, and utility companies being in the electricity generation business is a really good [...]

by SAM ROSS-BROWN Both versions of the GOP tax plan could deal a devastating blow to solar and wind production. (Chris Neal/The Topeka Capital-Journal via AP) A wind farm near Waverly, Kansas The GOP tax reform plan barreling toward a vote in the Senate could deal a devastating blow to the renewable energy industry. Unlike [...]