I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
As Matt Reichbach blogged an hour ago, President Obama today reversed a federal ban on allowing states to set their own vehicle emission standards, which could clear the way for New Mexico to impose its own standards as soon as 2011.
It’s worth pointing out that New Mexico is now one of more than a dozen states that has opted in recent years to bypass a federal standard to pass its own vehicle emissions guidelines to cut down on greenhouse gases coming from cars and trucks.
The Bush administration stopped that trend in its tracks, however, when it rejected an application by California to implement its own tougher guidelines. Prior to that, the federal Environmental Protection Agency had given states the authority to adopt California’s more stringent pollution rules for cars and trucks or stick with the federal standards.
The Land of Enchantment passed its own standards in 2007 when the New Mexico Environmental Improvement and Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality boards passed regulations that will require vehicles manufactured for the model year 2011 and sold in New Mexico comply with strict new fuel emissions standards. You can view those standards here.
