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In another blow to carbon capture hopefuls, a bill focused on the geological sequestration of carbon failed in its first committee. The Senate Conservation Committee voted 8-1 to table SB 215 on Tuesday after a presentation by bill sponsors Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington, and Rep. Meredith Dixon, D-Albuquerque. This comes after the largest carbon capture

The Public Service Company of New Mexico submitted plans to San Juan County to demolish the San Juan Generating Station.

The Public Service Company of New Mexico submitted plans to San Juan County to demolish the San Juan Generating Station, according to utility spokesperson Raymond Sandoval. In an email to NM Political Report, Sandoval said the utility submitted these plans on Dec. 28. “We anticipate working with the County to gain their approval of these […]

The Colorado Supreme Court stepped in this week to clarify whether the owners of a Montezuma County oil and gas formation have the opportunity to challenge a retroactive $2 million

The Colorado Supreme Court stepped in this week to clarify whether the owners of a Montezuma County oil and gas formation have the opportunity to challenge a retroactive $2 million

The Colorado Supreme Court stepped in this week to clarify whether the owners of a Montezuma County oil and gas formation have the opportunity to challenge a retroactive $2 million

The CarbonSAFE program is a federal initiative that provides funding for carbon geological storage projects. The program is broken into four phases.

The United States will need to inject about a billion metric tons of carbon dioxide annually into underground reservoirs by 2050 to meet the zero emissions goals, according to Darin Damiani, carbon storage program manager for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Fuels and Carbon Management. He said currently there are five CarbonSAFE […]

Inside the Dirty, Dangerous World of Carbon Flooding 17/04/2021 An active oil pumpjack east of Andrews, Texas, November 2009. Photo: Zorin09/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0 Around the world, scientists and advocates call for keeping carbon in the ground as a means of staving off climate change. But in the Southwestern United States – mainly in Colorado and New Mexico – a mainstay of obtaining more oil is facilitated by doing the exact opposite: drilling pure reserves of carbon dioxi...

Around the world, scientists and advocates call for keeping carbon in the ground as a means of staving off climate change. But in the Southwestern United States — mainly in Colorado and New Mexico — a mainstay of obtaining more oil is facilitated by doing the exact opposite: drilling pure reserves of carbon dioxide out of the ground. After it’s extracted from these natural-source underground fields, the gas then gets piped to the Permian Basin, the nation’s top-producing oil fields of W...