Attorney Xochitl Torres Small just won a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in a rural district. One of her prominent talking points? Protecting the region's national monument. Wes Siler Could saving our nation’s natural heritage be the issue that unites a divided country? It looks that way, at least in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional [...]
By Jon Goldstein As the landlord for a vast area of public land in Southeast New Mexico, one of the federal Bureau of Land Management’s primary responsibilities is to ensure the resources in that area are wisely managed to benefit the people of New Mexico. Why then is that agency moving forward on a plan that [...]
The trial had been delayed while the Trump administration tried to get the case thrown out. This latest order doesn’t ensure a clear road ahead, though. BY STAFF, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS The young plaintiffs in the children's climate lawsuit sued the federal government, saying its actions had contributed to climate change, and that that violated the [...]
Thousands of Comments Hand-Delivered Opposing December Oil and Gas Lease Sale Gabby Brown, gabby.brown@sierraclub.org Rebecca Sobel, WildEarth Guardians, rsobel@wldearthguardians.org, 267-402-0724 Julia Bernal, Pueblo Action Alliance, puebloactionalliance@gmail.com, (505) 220-0051 Santa Fe, NM -- Community groups and advocates hand-delivered over 10,000 citizen protest comments to the Bureau of Land Management’s New Mexico state office in snowy Santa Fe today in [...]
Pamela King, E&E News reporter Federal officials have dropped their appeal of a June district court ruling that nixed oil and gas leases in New Mexico's Santa Fe National Forest. The forest's Battleship Rock is pictured. Aaron Zhu/Wikimedia Commons The Bureau of Land Management will no longer contest a district court ruling that the agency fell [...]
Public Regulation Commission Dismisses El Paso Electric’s Expensive Solar Proposal Friends, I'm so excited to share this press release with you all. Moments after today's win I phoned our friends here in New Mexico, Washington, and Colorado who are leaders in the renewable independent power producers movement to give them the good news: we won [...]
By Laura Paskus The Colorado River supplies water for more than 36 million people in two countries and seven states, including New Mexico. As river flows and reservoir levels decline due to drought, warming and over-demand, states are wrangling over how to voluntarily conserve water use—before reservoir levels reach critically low levels and trigger mandatory cutbacks. [...]
Republican climate rhetoric shifts (again), but the goal remains the same. By David Roberts@drvoxdavid@vox.com Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is sad about the climate change he denies. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images In recent years, leaders of the Republican Party have become aware that denying the existence of global warming makes them look like idiots. Changes in climate have become obvious, [...]
Ninety-one percent of public lands in northwest New Mexico are leased for drilling, with the remaining nine percent in Greater Chaco, where the Bureau of Land Management also wants to allow hydraulic fracking. (sanjuancitizens.org) October 22, 2018 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The federal government is proceeding with plans for a December auction of oil and gas [...]