by ALERIE VOLCOVICI U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell speaks during a news conference in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada, April 28, 2016. REUTERS/CHRIS WATTIE From Appalachia to Wyoming, surging demand for cheap natural gas, tougher environmental regulations and multiple coal company bankruptcies have left behind a devastated coal business, lost jobs and billions of dollars in [...]
by Amanda Reilly, E&E reporter Correction appended.A federal court yesterday ruled for the first time on the legality of the Obama administration's estimated social cost of carbon. The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Department of Energy's use of the metric in its analysis of standards for commercial refrigeration equipment. The court upheld DOE's [...]
by Laura Paskus/NMID The Middle Rio Grande wasn't flowing in July near San Antonio. Whether walking along an irrigation ditch or sitting at the edge of a public meeting, I’ve listened to people complain about others taking more than their share of water from the Rio Grande. I’ve chronicled disagreements over the river’s management and [...]
By Elliott Negin ExxonMobil officials may hem and haw when reporters ask them if the company still funds climate science denier organizations, but the numbers don't lie. The company says it acknowledges the reality of global warming and claims it supports a carbon tax, but its recently disclosed list of 2015 "public information and policy [...]
Do you know if you legislators voted to give more tax breaks to the oil and gas industry? Did they stand up for your right to vote? Did they vote to fund much-needed health studies in western New Mexico communities that are literally living next to toxic waste? You can find the answers to these questions [...]
By Steve Terrell In a move blasted by the president of Public Service Company of New Mexico and cheered by the director of a local clean energy advocacy group, a hearing examiner for the state Public Regulation Commission on Thursday recommended a drastically lower revenue increase for PNM compared with the amount the utility requested. [...]
by Eleanor Bravo The 100 degree-plus New Mexico summer hasn’t slowed the Bureau of Land Management’s seemingly relentless drive to offer up public lands to the fossil fuel industry. In a sneaky and secretive move, the bureau tried to change the location of the July 20 auction from Santa Fe to a more remote location [...]
Triple digit temps dry the Rio Grande So far this summer, 17 miles of the big river are dry. Laura Paskus Triple digit temps dry the Rio Grande New Mexico's farmers and endangered fish had a tough month By Laura Paskus, New Mexico In Depth Despite spring runoff that ripped down the Rio Grande in [...]
The EPA has already spent $100 million to remediate decades of mining. by Paige Blankenbuehler Soil tackifier solution is applied to the dirt around an abandoned uranium mine in Thoreau, New Mexico, to reduce erosion on the contaminated site. "BACKSTORY In 2005, the Navajo Nation banned uranium mining on its 27,000-square-mile reservation. Nearly 4 million tons [...]
WINDOW ROCK – The Health, Education, and Human Services Committee considered Legislation No. 0226-16 on Monday, which requests a scientific study to be conducted on the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” before the Navajo Nation government considers establishing any policy regarding the resource extraction method. According to the legislation, in 2013 [...]