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Contact: Jamie Trafficanda, Western Resource Advocates, 720-763-3737, jamie@westernresources.org
Mona Blaber, Sierra Club – Rio Grande Chapter, 505-660-6905, monablaber@gmail.com
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 ...
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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