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.
Any hopes of a climate bill may be on the shoulders of New Mexico’s Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who is drafting a utility-only climate bill.
Politico noted today that while John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have been more publicly visible in their pushing of a more ambitious climate bill, “Kerry’s bill has never come within spitting distance of 60 votes.”
Bingaman told KUNM yesterday that he still isn’t sure if he will introduce his bill, which would only regulate carbon emissions from utilities; the Kerry-Lieberman bill would have industry-wide carbon emission regulations. For example, manufacturing industries would be regulated under the Kerry-Lieberman bill but not in Bingaman’s proposed bill.
Bills in the Senate currently 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster to have an up-and-down vote on the legislation. There are 58 Democrats and independents who caucus with Democrats in the U.S. Senate right now.
