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.
The U.S. Senate will use the framework of Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s, D-N.M., so-called “energy-only” bill instead of the more comprehensive climate change bill written by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., confirmed on MSNBC this morning.
“Kerry has a proposal that has pretty broad support,” Schumer said on MSNBC. “He’s going, in my opinion, going to get a chance to offer it in the form of an amendment.”
Talking Points Memo calls this “the latest blow to the prospects of climate and energy legislation.” Senate observers cite the difficulty in rounding up 60 votes to break a filibuster as a stumbling block for climate legislation.
The energy-only bill, or the American Clean Energy Leadership Act (ACELA), passed the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which Bingaman chairs, last June.
Bingaman’s bill would include a Renewable Energy Standard, or a provision that would require that 15 percent of energy be produced by renewable sources by 2021. These include, “wind, solar, ocean, geothermal, biomass, landfill gas, incremental hydropower, hydrokinetic, new hydropower at existing dams with no generation,” according to a summary of the bill.
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change compared ACELA to the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, the House energy and climate bill that passed last year.
