[CedarDave]

Below is some information from the report:

• The oil and natural gas sector contributed the largest percentage of the state’s greenhouse gas emissions last year at 24%
• The transportation sector was second with 22% of the state’s emissions
• Followed by electricity at 18%,
• Other industry at 18%
• Agriculture at 11%
• The commercial and residential sector at 6%

Reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry through statewide regulations is stated as the “highest priority” for New Mexico’s energy transition.

In New Mexico methane makes up 31% of New Mexico’s emissions. Nationally, methane is 10% of emissions. The Environmental Protection Agency has acknowledged that methane contributes to global temperature increases.

The oil and gas industry generates greater than 60% of the New Mexico's methane emissions. Nationally, that sector contributes 31% of national methane emissions.

Our radical environmental left-wing governor faces a corundum - New Mexico revenue has skyrocketed to record levels – an estimated $7.9 billion in the current budget year – due primarily to an ongoing oil production boom in the state’s southeast corner. The legislature is already spending the surplus by increasing New Mexico teacher salaries, restoring depleted cash reserves and appropriating nearly $400 million for highway construction and repairs statewide.

With all of that and New Mexico being #3 in national oil and gas production, the governor is faced criticism from environmental advocacy groups for not doing more to address climate change. To counter the criticism, she said New Mexico is taking more decisive steps toward a renewable energy-based economy than many other states.

And the latter statement refers to new laws that will prohibit electric energy generation in the state from fossil fuels by 2045. As already seen in California, such laws mandating generation by renewable energy have already led to large customer rate increases and unreliable supply at some times (brownouts in summer unrelated to those due to high winds and forest fires).

Also in the works is the drafting of new regulations to reduce/prevent methane emissions from the O&G industry. They are supposed to be drafted in conjunction with input from the industry, but we all know how that comes out with the foxes in charge of the hen house.

[CedarDave]

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[Gay State Conservative]

I might consider giving up my lifestyle if algore and Osama Obama give up their multi million dollar beachfront mansions.

[shelterguy]

“””””””Among other findings, the task force said New Mexico produced more than 66 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 “””””””””

If we continue to put millions of tons of stuff into the air won’t the earth tip over?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Meanwhile, New Mexico and Albuquerque in particular, the crime rate has exploded. Why deal with real issues when you can try to get control of the weather ?

[Toddsterpatriot]

Overall, New Mexicans produce 31 tons of greenhouse gas emissions per person per year, the report found. The national average is 18 tons per person.

The best, quickest way to reduce CO2 emissions in America is to boot 20 million illegal aliens. They'll produce much less CO2 back in their home country.

[Gay State Conservative]

On the "Climate Change" front...the Town Meeting of Brookline,Massachusetts (the town where the Tank Commander,Mike Dukakis,got his start) just passed an ordinance outlawing gas and oil heating systems in all new residential and commercial construction and major rehabs of existing structures.

Given that the Tank Commander still lives there this isn't even slightly surprising.

[Chode]

[Rashputin]

This is all absolute bullshit.

C02 is what plant life relies on. Reduce C02 and you reduce plant growth. Reduce plant growth and you reduce the crop yields. Reduce crop yields and people starve.

This is not a report on how to slow climate change.

This is a guide to starving millions of people to death.

[cpdiii]

“Reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry through statewide regulations is stated as the “highest priority” for New Mexico’s energy transition.”

This is stupidity on steroids. Methane has a half life of only 7 years once in the atmosphere. It is not important.

[Jim Noble]

“It is not hyperbole to suggest the stakes are higher than perhaps ever before in human history,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, said

Is she retarded?

[Jim Noble]

“It is not hyperbole to suggest the stakes are higher than perhaps ever before in human history,” Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, a Democrat, said

Is she retarded?

[wjcsux]

I never thought that we would ever see a worse governor than little Toney. Grisham has done what I always thought was impossible.

[Bommer]

We do need to save the planet, but we have to make a choice on the best way to do it.

1. Give up coal firing plants, gasoline powered cars and engines, no more jets, buses motorcycles and kill all the cattle that provides us food?.

2. Kill all the liberals and use them for fertilizer to grow crops?

[Jane Long]

O, how far New Mexico has fallen 😩

[blueplum]

NM can do whatever they want, but first the leadership is going to have to explain how they plan to replace all the money and jobs that will be lost to wackadoodle pipe dreams of a NM utopia, bearing in mind wind and solar isn’t sustainable without permanent government subsidies:

from the NM Oil and Gas Assn website:
30% of the NM General Fund comes from Oil and Gas Production
14.2% of the state budget, or $11.3B, comes from Oil and Gas
The average industry salary is $71K, $20K higher than the average salary across all other NM industries
The Oil and Gas Industry has added 100,000 jobs to NM

source:
https://www.nmoga.org/benefits_of_oil_natural_gas

[Mister Da]

The governor should take the lead by ordering all government offices to lower the thermostats to 65 degrees or less in cold weather & raise it to 75 degrees or more in warm weather, while banning fans & space heaters in all these offices. His office should lead this by immediate example.

I’m still waiting .........