Response to BLM letter sent to Tribal governments, stating the BLM would initiate a process to revoke an administrative mineral withdrawal for future oil and gas drilling within a 10-mile buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park ...
At the Water and Natural Resources Interim Committee hearing in Santa Fe, scientists, economists, and policy leaders told lawmakers that New Mexico is paying a steep price for rising temperatures from higher insurance premiums and shrinking water supplies to the mounting costs of rebuilding after fires and floods ...
The Water Quality Control Commission met to consider water watchdogs’ motions to disqualify commissioners who may have voted under duress from the governor's office to advance an oil and gas industry-written rule allowing discharge of toxic oil and gas wastewater in New Mexico ...
On October 23, advocacy groups and community members delivered 890 signatures and comments to the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) in support of proposed rule changes to modernize outdated oil and gas bonding and cleanup requirements ...
Holtec has announced that it would no longer pursue its proposal to store the nation's high-level nuclear waste in New Mexico ...
The State Engineer issued her decision on August 20 denying Tulla Resources’ application to transfer water rights needed to reopen the Copper Flat Mine near Hillsboro in southern New Mexico. The State Engineer noted the effects of climate change on New Mexico’s water resources. ...
For Immediate Release
July 30, 2025
Contact: Antoinette Reyes, Antoinette.Reyes@sierraclub.org
The EPA Delays Implementation of Critical Methane Pollution Controls, Jeopardizing the Health and Air Quality of Thousands of New Mexicans
Las Cruces, N.M. – Yesterday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin issued an interim final rule delaying implementation of Biden-era changes to Section 111b of the Clean Air Act, which updated greenhouse gases (GHG), volatile organic compounds (VOC), and methane pollution standards for new and existing oil and gas facilities. Methane is a climate super pollutant that is vented and flared from oil and gas wells impacting public health. Both large and independent producers have gone on record in support of federal methane regulation and major oil and gas producing states including Colorado, Wyoming, ...
In a direct assault on the movement to mitigate the climate crisis, the Trump administration will formally propose a plan to rescind the EPA’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding ...
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