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Days before President Joe Biden planned to host an international Climate Change Summit, and was expected to renew the U.S.’ goals to mitigate pollution, New Mexico environmental groups joined a national coalition in urging the administration to aim to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas by 65 percent from 2012 levels by 2025. Biden invited at least 40 world leaders to the summit planned for Thursday and Friday, and many expected he would call for the U.S. to target a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2030. This would signal a shift for U.S. climate p...

New Mexico joins climate change conversation ahead of Biden's pollution summit Adrian Hedden, Carlsbad Current-Argus Replay Video UP NEXT Days before President Joe Biden planned to host an international Climate Change Summit, and was expected to renew the U.S.’ goals to mitigate pollution, New Mexico environmental groups joined a national coalition in urging the administration to aim to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas by 65 percent from 2012 levels by 2025. © Evan Vucci, AP President Joe Biden speaks Tuesday, April 20, 2021, at the White House in Washington, af...

U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM), New Mexico’s only Republican in Congress, continued in the charge against energy policies enacted by President Joe Biden’s administration which Herrell said threatened her home state more than most in the U.S. Herrell joined a forum held Friday by Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources which pointed to purported negative impacts of Biden’s policies on state economies and America’s oil and gas industry. Upon taking office, Biden via executive order placed a temporary pause on new federal oil and gas land leases, while callin...

U.S. Rep Yvette Herrell calls for New Mexico to oppose Biden's oil and gas policies Adrian Hedden, Carlsbad Current-Argus Replay Video UP NEXT U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM), New Mexico’s only Republican in Congress, continued in the charge against energy policies enacted by President Joe Biden’s administration which Herrell said threatened her home state more than most in the U.S. Herrell joined a forum held Friday by Republican members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources which pointed to purported negative impacts of Biden’s policies on state economies a...

The order also rolls back some changes to the National Environmental Policy Act that went into effect last September under the Trump administration,  and prioritizes study of the social costs of greenhouse gases, or “estimates in dollars of the long-term damages done by [greenhouse gases] in a given year.” Order No. 3398 is more technical. It negates a number of “energy dominance” actions taken under the Trump administration that expanded oil and gas development on public lands.  Haaland’s order reinstates a moratorium on federal coal reserve sales that was implemented under the...