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New Mexicans will see tens of thousands more electric vehicles available to buy in 2026 when a rule approved by two environmental boards takes effect.

The New Mexico Environment Department’s Environmental Protection Division director announced on Monday that she will be retiring, effective at the end of the month. Sandra Ely has led the division for three years and has worked for NMED in various capacities since 1994, with a short break from 2015 until 2019 when she was working […]

A bill aimed at reducing emissions from motor vehicles received a do pass recommendation on Wednesday from the Senate Finance Committee on a 6-4, party-line vote. The Clean Fuel Standard Act, Senate Bill 14, now heads to the Senate floor. Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, sponsored the bill. Stewart also brought the bill last year and it […]

SANTA FE — New Mexico would establish a clean fuel standard intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under legislation advancing in the state Senate. The ...

Sandra Ely, director of the New Mexico Environment Department’s Environmental Protection Division, says this is a “decisive decade” in terms of climate change. Ely is one of the “key architects” of a proposed climate bureau within NMED, according to Secretary James Kenney. Ely and Kenney spoke to NM Political Report this week about the climate […]

President Joe Biden recently signed a new executive order to drastically increase electric vehicle sales across the country. Biden is gunning for 50% by 2030.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Environmentalists blast delay in switching to carbon capture

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Environmentalists blast delay in switching to carbon capture

Copyright © 2021 Albuquerque Journal Enchant Energy Corp.'s plan to turn the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station into the world's largest carbon-capture power plant is facing yearslong delays. When Public Service Company of New Mexico abandons the facility in June 2022, Enchant says it now plans to simply continue running the site as a carbon-emitting coal plant for up to

New Mexicos air will be cleaner and free of more ozone — equivalent to taking 8 million cars off the road, according to some estimates — if new requirements from the states Environment Department go into effect next year. The NMED on Thursday announced it was removing exemptions from its proposed ozone rules for low-performing or stripper wells after calls from environmental groups that such “loopholes” would exempt most oil and gas wells in New Mexico. The rules required operators ...