By Jon Goldstein and Ben Ratner Much ink has been spilled recently about big new oil and gas investments in the Permian Basin across West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico. What some are dubbing “Permania” includes a more than $6 billion investment by ExxonMobil in New Mexico acreage and an almost $3 billion one by [...]
by Rebecca Leber/Mother Jones This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. With budget battles and promised tax reform ahead, President Donald Trump is running out of time to claim legislative wins. Especially since most of them have been from his rollback of environmental regulations put forward during [...]
Plugging natural-gas leaks is providing more jobs for New Mexicans, along with protecting the environment. (Creative Commons/Wikimedia) April 12, 2017 SANTA FE, N.M. - A new report shows a booming business in stopping leaks in natural-gas pipelines across the country. While cleaner air is good news for the environment in New Mexico, it might be [...]
by Leigh Black Irvin FARMINGTON – Saving the more than 645 jobs that would be lost if the San Juan Mine and Generating Station close down in five years was a major theme at Thursday's Four Corners Economic Development membership meeting at San Juan College. The 4CED group, which focuses on supporting San Juan County business [...]
by Bill McKibben The questions come after talks, on Twitter, in the days’ incoming tide of email—sometimes even in old-fashioned letters that arrive in envelopes. The most common one by far is also the simplest: What can I do? I bet I’ve been asked it 10,000 times by now and—like a climate scientist predicting the [...]
"Wind facility costs have dropped significantly. Combined with federal tax credits (which are set to expire), wind energy has become increasingly attractive to utilites. Xcel Energy has announced plans to build the largest wind farm in New Mexico. The 522-megawatt, $865 million Sagamore Wind Project will be in Roosevelt County, approximately 20 miles south of Portales. [...]
by Ben Paulos How do communities deal with the energy transition, in particular the loss of mining jobs? Ben Paulos takes a look at the documentary After Coal and two coal-dependent communities in Wales and Kentucky. Coal has been historically crucial in Appalachian communities (Photo by Russel Lee, 1946, modified, from the American National Archives [...]
Posted: Friday, March 31, 2017 2:45 pm | Updated: 4:18 pm, Fri Mar 31, 2017. Associated Press | ALBUQUERQUE — In all but one corner of New Mexico, water managers are projecting shortages in drinking and irrigation supplies given expected demand and variability in rainfall over the next few decades. Like many places in the [...]
by Laura Paskus As carbon dioxide levels hit levels unseen in 650,000 years and global temperatures continue to rise, the United States government is rolling back climate change policies. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order revoking and rescinding all Obama-era orders and reports addressing climate and clean energy. He also ordered the [...]
According to publicly available data from the New Mexico Oil Conservation Division, there were 1,310 reported spills in New Mexico in 2016, an 11 percent decrease from the previous year. The vast majority of spills, 83 percent, took place in Lea and Eddy Counties. COG Operating LLC reported 153 spills, the most of any company, [...]