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By New Mexico Environment Department • Jan 20, 2021 Credit Rep. Nathan Small Commentary: Sen. Mimi Stewart and Rep. Nathan Small filed the New Mexico Clean Fuel Standard Act (Senate Bill 11), a Governor’s priority bill that would bring an estimated $47 million in economic investments annually to the state while significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. The transportation sector is the second-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in New Mexico behind the oil and natural gas industry.  If enacted, the Clean Fuel Standard Act ...

When California passed its landmark cap-and-trade law in 2006, supporters were hopeful that the program would provide the template for other states — and eventually the federal government — to solve the climate crisis. Now, many environmental groups are increasingly saying the program has done little to curb climate change. Worse, they say, it is harming the lower-income areas and communities of color most affected by pollution. Those environmental justice concerns stopped President-elect Joe Biden from picking Mary Nichols, who leads the California Air Resources Board — the agency that...

New legal standard would presume guilt for environmental crimes, not innocence Gov’s Climate Change Task Force refuses to discuss the immense cost of their climate change policies. Final cost in the “trillions” Radical recommendations would close down all coal plants, force you to drive alternative vehicles, and give the Attorney General new power to bully your business via subpoena, without court approval   By Lexi Dittrich The Governor’s Task Force on Climate Change has issued a radical roadmap that will completely change the way Wisconsinites heat their homes, fuel their cars and ...

Supporters were initially hopeful that California's program would provide the template for other states — and eventually the federal government — to solve the climate crisis.

Nathalie Eddy, Earthworks Methane and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) venting captured by Earthworks' Nathalie Eddy in November. This equipment is located in the San Juan Basin and is owned by Hilcorp. Dave Rogers is a reverend in Carlsbad and founder of the group Citizens Caring For the Future. The group started, he said, out of concern in the community about the environmental and health impacts of oil and gas development that was booming in the New Mexico side of the Permian Basin—until the COVID-19 pandemic and the oil market downturn brought production to a near halt in 2020.  “[We...