For immediate release: Nov. 16, 2023 After four long days of hearings, New Mexico’s Environmental Improvement Board and Albuquerque-Bernalillo Air Quality Control Board voted to adopt Clean Cars II standards through 2032, as well as Clean Trucks and Heavy-Duty Omnibus Standards, after 9 p.m. Thursday.  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 16, 2023 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A broad coalition of state climate, environmental justice, and business groups known as New Mexico Clean Air welcomed the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board adopting the Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, and Heavy-Duty Low NOx standards ... Read More

In late spring 2023, New Mexico Game and Fish opened the bear and cougar hunting rules for review as it does every 4 years. The public was invited to provide comments. But the agency only provided a document totaling 1.5 pages that encompassed statements about its proposed black bear (Ursus americanus) and cougar (Puma concolor) rule changes with no specifics about what was being proposed. A few more pages were provided in August with a little more detail about the proposals but very little about the justifications for those proposals. The public has little information about the studies NMDGF relies ... Read More

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Rio Grande Sierra Club hikes and outings for October-December 2023 ... Read More

On July 3, Gov. Lujan Grisham proposed Advanced Clean Car II and Advanced Clean Trucks standards. The proposal requires 82% of new cars sold in New Mexico by 2032 to have zero emissions. Clean Trucks would require an increasing percentage of medium- and heavy-duty trucks be electric. If adopted, Clean Cars and Trucks would go into effect starting with the 2027 model year. The New Mexico Environment Department is holding meetings to hear from the public ... Read More