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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.
Two New Mexicans with unique outlooks and experience on energy were featured in today’s edition of the Washington D.C. political newspaper Roll Call. U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, an oilman by trade, is the only freshman to be included in Roll Call’s energy briefing.
Bingaman wrote there were several challenged to writing a new, comprehensive energy bill. These six challenges were “deploying clean-energy technology; improving energy efficiency; maintaining adequate supplies of conventional fuels as we make the transition to newer forms of energy; increasing energy innovation; making energy markets more transparent; and maintaining the proper balance between energy and environment policies, especially as it relates to global warming.”
Bingaman is working with U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, in crafting the bill.
New Mexico’s senior senator also wrote that, “We must also use the stimulus funding for the smart grid programs that Congress put in place in 2007.”
Teague, meanwhile, focused on New Mexico in particular and what the state can do to help with the energy challenges in America.
“New Mexico is on the forefront of our nation’s energy future,” Teague wrote. “We have it all — solar, wind, geothermal and biofuel production, as well as the oil and natural gas resources that have powered our state’s economy for decades.”
Teague also acknowledged that, as an owner of an oil company, that people “were surprised to see me campaigning on a platform that emphasized energy independence through a focus on the development of clean and renewable energy.”
The freshman Democrat from Hobbs also signaled where he will focus his efforts during his congressional career. The four points that Teague will focus on are expanding transmission, improving the Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit, promoting energy entrepreneurship and green job training.
