New Mexico & El Paso
In a letter to the Biden administration, 134 environmental, public health, and advocacy organizations are urging President Biden to direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use the full power of sections 111(b) and 111(d) of the Clean Air Act to reduce methane air pollution from new and existing sources of oil and gas development by 65% by 2025.
Hundreds of Native American, religious, business and conservation organizations called on the Biden administration to do a comprehensive environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws to align federal fossil fuel programs with U.S. climate goals to curb global warming.
After announcing it would drop one of its leases in the Palo Verde Nuclear plant last year, this month PNM proposed replacing the energy with 100% solar and battery. In support of its proposal, PNM cited the Energy Transition Act’s requirements and the Public Regulation Commission’s decision last year to choose a 100% solar/storage proposal rather than PNM’s favored gas-inclusive replacement scenario for San Juan Generating Station coal. The replacement proposal will need to be approved by the commission.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 16, 2021Contact: Camilla Feibelman, camilla.feibelman@sierraclub.org, 505.715.8388 NM Environmental Groups Praises Haaland’s Secretarial Orders on Climate, Energy WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interior Secretary Haaland today issued two executive orders prioritizing action on climate change and revoking Trump administration
Join your fellow New Mexicans online or in small groups to celebrate our home – learn something or make it better.
Senators Heinrich, King, and Markey and Majority Leader Schumer introduced a resolution in the Senate and U.S. Reps. DeGette, Peters, and Lamb introduced a resolution in the House that would reinstate the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2016 methane pollution safeguards.
The New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission finalized a new rule proposed by the state’s Energy, Minerals, and Natural Resources Department to limit venting and flaring of methane by the oil and gas industry. The OCC rule marks an important step forward in reducing methane waste, a significant climate pollutant, and holding the oil and gas industry accountable for the tremendous amounts of greenhouse gases it is currently emitting in New Mexico.
Head on over to the Socorro area for a great hike and rock-hounding in the ghost town of Riley.
The Taos West Rim Trail takes off at the high bridge and heads south along the Rio Grande.
How about a nice hike on the Rio in Las Cruces?