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PNM customers recently showed their disapproval of a potential electricity rate increase, with many noting they already struggle to pay their bills.

Nicole Maestas Olonovich, a resident of Albuquerque’s South Valley, has limited income at her disposal to help her and her one-year-old child. The mother and disabled veteran is concerned that increasing electric utility rates may lead to difficult decisions in the future. “A 10 percent increase for me would have been almost $40 this month,” […]

The commission, which oversees electric and gas utilities, telecommunications companies and other services, for years has held public meetings weekly; now every other weeks meeting will be private.

"Can you imagine your child crying out for you as they're taking their last breath at the hands of people we pay to protect us?" Lisa Christopherson said.

Public Service Company of New Mexico customers expressed concerns about the state’s largest utility being acquired by Avangrid, the subsidiary of a global utility giant, during a New Mexico Public Regulation Commission hearing on Monday. At the end of Monday’s session, hearing examiner Ashley Schannauer thanked the participants and encouraged people to watch the evidentiary […]

Comnmentary: New Mexico leaders are applauding the Joint Resolution pre-filed Monday, January 4, by Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, Senator Bill Soules, and Representative Joanne Ferrary to amend the New Mexico Constitution in order to add enforceable environmental rights.  Senator Mimi Stewart, Senator Harold Pope, Jr, Representative Tara Luján and Representative Andrea Romero are signing on as co-sponsors in support.   The Joint Resolution proposing the amendment was pre-filed by the sp...