Kellie Lunney and Geof Koss, E&E News reporters Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) vows that the Senate will pass a bill killing BLM's methane regulations next week. Photo courtesy of C-SPAN. Will Vice President Mike Pence cast the tie-breaking vote next week to pass a Senate resolution repealing a controversial [...]
Letter to the Editor THERE ARE SO many issues that could be addressed in …Doug Turner’s sarcastic and misleading (April 3) op-ed, “‘Keep it in the ground’ movement naïve to realities,” but I’d like to address just a few. First: Chaco Canyon. Drilling and fracking anywhere and, in particular, just outside of and on the [...]
Some people are skeptical that human activity is driving global warming. We take a look at the most common arguments used by climate deniers, and set the record straight. Despite a 97 percent scientific consenus on the issue, some still dispute the idea that human activity is causing climate change. With this year's Earth Day [...]
The four wells will be drilled near Nageezi, in the Gallup formation (Photo: Courtesy Jay Paul McWilliams) STORY HIGHLIGHTS ArcLight Capital Partners has provided $150 million to support LOGOS' operations Aztec Well Servicing will be providing well services for the four drilling projects LOGOS President Jay Paul McWilliams predicts the San Juan Basin will enjoy [...]
by Auden Schendler If you parade several hundred thousand people through New York and coordinate simultaneous marches globally, the truth is … it might not matter all that much. Such was the lesson of the 2014 climate march in New York City, and probably of the Jan. 21 women’s marches, exhilarating as they were. It’s [...]
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by Michael Coleman WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it will postpone for 90 days regulations imposed by former President Barack Obama to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas wells. The New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, which protested the so-called methane rule when it was announced last year, cheered the [...]
Albuquerque is among the top 10 U.S. cities in installed solar capacity, according to a new report from the Environment America Research and Policy Center, which surveyed 66 cities nationwide. The “Shining Cities” report ranked Albuquerque as the 9th top solar-powered city in the U.S., beating out Las Vegas, Nevada, and San Francisco for the [...]
Associated Press ALBUQUERQUE — As New Mexico’s elected leaders wrangle over raising taxes to plug a budget shortfall, major multinational energy companies have quietly spent more than $13 billion in recent months on assets in the state’s oil and gas hot spots. The new wave of investment bodes well for the industry being able to [...]
by Gloria Lehmer There’s a lot of talk in Washington right now about energy independence and creating jobs. Yet some members of Congress and the Trump Administration are signaling that when it comes to special interests, they’re willing to sacrifice both. For example, President Trump recently signed an Executive Order “on Promoting Energy Independence and [...]