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A New Mexico Senate bill that would place a four-year moratorium on new permits for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, passed its first committee Feb. 13 and is now closer to becoming law. Senate Bill 149 passed the Senate Conservation Committee on a 5-4 vote and was sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee for the further discussion and a second vote. Sponsored by Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, the bill was intended to halt new fracking operations to allow environmental officials and lawmakers to study its environmental impact. She introduced similar legislation that died in committee during the 2019 and 2020 legislative sessions. The fracking process, in which a combination of water, sand and chemicals is pumped underground to break deep shale deposits so crude oil and natural gas can be brought to the surface. ....
New Mexico Environment Department Files Agency Priority Legislation For 2021 Session NMED News: From Fiscal Year 2010 to Fiscal Year 2019, the New Mexico Environment Department’s (NMED) general fund was cut by 42 percent, resulting in a loss of environmental and public health protections across New Mexico. The administration of Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham is making restoring those protections – deserved by all New Mexicans – a priority by recommending $16.8 million in general fund for NMED, a 28.1 percent increase over last year. Meanwhile, the Legislative Finance Committee recommended no increase to the Department’s budget. Without a 28 percent increase, NMED will continue to struggle to fulfill its mission of protecting and preserving the environment for present and future generations, threatening the safety of public drinking water systems, the ability for NMED to hold polluters accountable, and the safety of New Mexico’s workers during ....
by Helena Tavares Kennedy (Biofuels Digest) … (A)an even hotter report from Jonn Axsen, Director of Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team and Michael Wolinetz at Navius Research is slamming California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office 2018 Low Carbon Fuel Standard report that had recommended the legislature rely more on the cap-and-trade policy instead of an LCFS. Also hot-off-the-press news that folks are lovin’ is the proposed New Mexico Clean Fuel Standard Act, a Governor’s priority bill that would bring an estimated $47 million in economic investments annually to the state while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. In today’s Digest, a look at the 5 counterpoints to the LAO Report’s conclusions as well as a look at Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-NM)’s proposed New Mexico Clean Fuel Standard Act and what that means. READ MORE ....
As hot as John Travolta was in the ‘70s, an even hotter report from Jonn Axsen, Director of Sustainable Transportation Action Research Team and Michael Wolinetz at Navius Research is slamming California’s Legislative Analyst’s Office 2018 Low Carbon Fuel Standard report that had recommended the legislature rely more on the cap-and-trade policy instead of an LCFS. Also hot-off-the-press news that folks are lovin’ is the proposed New Mexico Clean Fuel Standard Act, a Governor’s priority bill that would bring an estimated $47 million in economic investments annually to the state while reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the transportation sector. ....
Associated Press New Mexico is seeing its daily COVID-19 case totals decline. But health officials have been worried about whether the Christmas holiday could lead to another spike as it takes two to three weeks for infections to manifest. On Monday, the state reported an additional 700 confirmed cases, bringing the total to more than 138,650 since the pandemic began. The 36 additional deaths bring the death toll to 2,380. Almost one-third of the latest deaths included people at long-term care facilities and one inmate at the Guadalupe County Correctional Facility. Vaccinations of health care workers as well as staff and residents at long-term care facilities is ongoing. ....