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NM Advocates Welcome PRC Unanimous Approval of Plan to Exit San Juan Generating Station

Moving forward from the coal plant and applying the Energy Transition Act will protect ratepayers, Four Corners communities, and New Mexicans’ way of life

Santa Fe, NM (April 1, 2020) – A large coalition of New Mexico community, faith, tribal, and environmental advocates today welcomed the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s (PRC) decision to approve Public Service Company of New Mexico’s (PNM) request to abandon or exit the San Juan Generating Station and use ...

PRC to decide on San Juan exit, great renewables news, and oil & gas
As we each adjust in our way we want to make sure that you’ve got the latest on what’s happening with our efforts to protect our climate and our communities ...
New Mexico Methane Action Alert
As we all deal with the uncertainty of this difficult time for our health and economy, it is more important than ever that New Mexico stays the course on critical public health initiatives to protect our children, our air and our climate. The New Mexico Environment Department and Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department are hosting an online meeting to gather public input about methane regulations and community impacts ...
Greater Chaco Coalition Responds to BLM’s Broken Promises
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington Field Office and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) released their long-awaited Mancos-Gallup Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Greater Chaco region on Friday, February 28, 2019. With the release of this draft plan, it’s clear the agencies have broken their many promises ...
Statement on San Juan Generating Station recommended decisions
On Friday February 21, Public Regulation Commission hearing examiners issued recommended decisions supporting allowing PNM to exit its ownership and operation of San Juan Generating Station coal-fired power plant and allowing bond sales to recover the remaining debt in the plant, along with recovery funds for workers and the surrounding Four Corners community ...
Photo of NM legislature
Here is a quick summary of the high and low points of the 2020 legislative session. We have much to celebrate and many to thank for their tireless efforts ...
Deadline tomorrow: Help NM slash climate-damaging methane waste

Just one day left to urge New Mexico to develop the strongest possible safeguards to reduce the oil and gas industry’s methane pollution

It’s crunch time! Please raise your voice to urge the state to slash climate-damaging oil and gas methane waste.

Methane is a greenhouse gas 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. It is also the main component of natural gas. But during the fracking process, New Mexico oil and gas companies leak, vent and flare so much methane into the atmosphere that the amount wasted could heat every home in our state. When methane leaks, it’s accompanied by dangerous volatile organic compounds that damage the health of the many communities living close to drilling wells.

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Network watches out for public health
Oil and gas methane emissions are at an all-time high in the Permian and San Juan Basins. Childhood asthma has doubled since 2015 to almost 50,000 cases in the state, and billions of gallons of radioactive produced water from fracking operations are being injected into wells and held in impoundment ponds while the New Mexico Environment Department studies how to safely dispose of this new hazardous fluid. Northern New Mexico Group members Denise Fort and Teresa Seamster are members of the Environmental Public Health Network, with projects in water quality and community impacts planned for 2020 ...