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.
Don’t expect action on a federal plan to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions for at least a year, says Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the Silver City Democrat who chairs the Senate Energy Committee.
His statement, issued at a climate conference in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday and reported by The Associated Press, may conflict with the stated goals of President-elect Obama, who has said he wants to move more quickly.
Bingaman said efforts to cap greenhouse gases must continue, but that creating a national cap-and-trade system to gradually cut carbon emissions is too complex to draft and implement in 2009:
“The reality is, it may take more than the first year to get it all done,” Bingaman told a carbon markets conference here [in Washington].
He said Congress will work next year on other conservation measures and requiring electric utilities to use more renewable energy, even as it works toward creating a cap-and-trade plan to ratchet down gas emissions over the next 40 years.
An Obama adviser, however, says the president could take on the global-warming challenge administratively. Potential steps include allowing California to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks and having the Environmental Protection Agency regulate carbon dioxide.
According the AP:
Jason Grumet, a senior environmental adviser to the president-elect and on the short list for a position in the White House, predicted at the same conference Wednesday that it was going to be a “very, very busy 2009″ on climate.
