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.
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is working on writing a utilities-only energy bill “that would cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants” according to The New York Times. The Times says such a bill, less ambitious than the cap and trade climate bill crafted by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., would have a better chance of passing the Senate.
Unlike the Kerry-Lieberman proposal, Bingaman’s bill would not cap carbon emissions from the manufacturing or transportation sectors.
Bingaman may not even introduce the bill this year, though.
“I think it would depend on how much support there would be for that,” he said, according to The New York Times. “I don’t want to just introduce bills in order to add to the list of bills that have been introduced.”
While it may not see the light of day, it could become one of the many options that Senate Democratic leaders have to choose from when crafting energy legislation.
Bingaman is the chairman of Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, a key committee for any energy or climate legislation.
