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.
A bill that would bar all New Mexico environmental boards from passing greenhouse gas regulations that are more stringent than the national regulations cleared a Senate committee Tuesday. The bill, SB 489, is likely in response to the Environmental Improvement Board passing greenhouse gas regulations last year.
The legislation sponsored by Sen. Clint Harden, R-Clovis, cleared its first committee, the Senate Conservation Committee Tuesday.
The bill adds language to existing law that says, “The environmental improvement board or the local board shall not adopt a rule more stringent than federal law or regulation for reporting, verifying, limiting, trading or capping the emission of greenhouse gases.”
The greenhouse gas bill may have a harder time in the Senate Judiciary Committee. That committee killed a bill earlier in the session that would have reversed the greenhouse cap. Some cited the fact that the rule came from the executive branch as the reason why that bill failed.
Gov. Susana Martinez attempted to block the publishing of the regulations in the state Register for 90 days but the state Supreme Court ruled against her. Martinez also removed all members of the EIB after she became governor and has since replaced the board with her own appointees.
