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Posted on 08/04/2025 12:45:51 PM PDT by CedarDave
New Mexico’s clean energy and environmental advocates are recoiling from energy policy shifts set in motion by the Trump administration this week, including the possible rollback of a major scientific finding about climate change and the delay of rules regulating oil and gas emissions.
For a big oil- and gas-producing state like New Mexico, the consequences could be far-reaching, state officials say. But Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration is sticking to its own clean energy policies, and a state board in the coming weeks will hold a hearing to consider the adoption of a clean fuels rule.
“ The proposal to rescind the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding ignores decades of established climate science and threatens the health and economic future of New Mexican families,” said state Environment Secretary James Kenney.
The federal administration’s pro-oil and gas stances have resulted in multiple unfavorable policies for renewables, according to advocates, who pointed out that just last month, President Donald Trump signed a bill that they say will slow down the nation’s renewable energy transition.
On Tuesday, the EPA announced a move that the Union of Concerned Scientists called “laughable, if it weren’t so dangerous” — an intent to rescind a 2009-era legal prerequisite that allows the federal government to combat climate change.
Known as the “endangerment finding,” it concluded that greenhouse gas emissions pose a global threat by contributing to climate change. The largest source of greenhouse gas emissions nationwide is transportation according to the EPA.
New Mexico has its own emissions standards, two of which — an ozone precursor rule and a methane waste rule — are projected to reduce methane emissions by 54% between 2020 and 2030, according to NMED. By the end of 2026, operators must capture at least 98% of their natural gases.
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The real estate lobby has spoken.
It will always be cold in winter, and hot in summer.
New Mexico is officially a fart in a whirlwind.
Pinging the NM list. I’ll post next a story on the proposed NM Clean Fuel standard which essentially would ban all fossil fuels in the future..
Gov. Michelle Lujan will follow Newsome down any rabbit hole to hell.
New Mexico is a Democrat plantation.
The state and BLM/national parks have refused to put in breaks to stop flooding in Ruidoso under the guise of environmental protection. (Water rips down the mountain in the fire scars.)
The real reason for the refusal is to make valuable riverfront land uninsurable/unbuildable. The land is being snapped up by Democrat-connected developers. Same with the racetrack.
These were the moderately-priced homes.
It’s the LA fires model. And Hawaii.
Goal is obviously to chase out the riff raff and change Ruidoso into Aspen 2.0.
A big casino group is after the racetrack, looking for a bargain.
My house is way up the mountain in no way affected by the fire or floods. I get daily low ball unsolicited offers on the land, including calls on my cell. It’s obviously coordinated. One guy showed up at the door with his checkbook. They’re blanketing any property in the zip codes with offers while the government interferes with desperate homeowners.
Well, that’s not me.
From a personal financial situation, this will make my property way more valuable. But I am beyond disgusted.
Once again, Democrats serving the elite and using the levers of government to do it.
Fookin’ idjits. I love this state. The government, not so much. And the wind blows so much here, that OK and TX have to worry more about pollution from NM than NM does.
New Mexico to continue to drive up prices for its citizens and push discredited religious practices...
My wife’s Apache. Every cat had a Trump sticker.
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