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 New Mexico Supreme Court struck down a surcharge designed to compensate utilities for electricity conservation, saying that the Public Regulation Commission did not apply a cost-benefit analysis to the rule.
The PRC allowed utilities to collect a one cent surcharge per kilowatt-hour for energy use saved through efficiency measures – -adding up to about 17 cents for the average consumer per month and approximately $10 million a year for utilities, according to regulators. Consumers will not receive rebates for the surcharge.
PRC Commissioner Jason Marks, who opposed the rule, said, “We need a rule that is legal and is fair to the customers and to the utilities. The rule that we had before wasn’t fair to customers.”
