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.
New Mexico’s oil and gas utilities have filed petitions with the state’s Environmental Impact Board, seeking to overturn rules establishing a cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gas emissions in the state.
The Environmental Improvement Board passed a program designed to cut down on the carbon emissions from the state’s largest greenhouse gas producers. The cap-and-trade program would require the state’s largest polluters to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions by 3 percent per year from 2010 levels beginning in 2013.
Thomas Crocker, an economics Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the 1960s, developed one of the most innovative and controversial public policy proposals of our time, cap-and-trade. Forty-five years later, he reflects on his creation, saying he believes it’s the wrong approach to climate change.
New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman has sponsored a renewable energy standard bill that would mandate 15 percent of the country’s electricity come from renewable sources like wind and solar by 2021. The proposal has been co-sponsored by 33 lawmakers, including at least four Republicans. One renewable energy advocate closely involved in efforts to move the RES who is not authorized to speak on the record says backers of the bill remains “laser-focused on the lame duck.”
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), who unveiled this week a stand-alone bill that would require a certain percentage of the country’s energy to come from renewable sources, said today that comprehensive climate legislation won’t be able to pass the Senate in…
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…
Despite initial hopes in the green movement that the spill would spur a move away from the country’s reliance on oil, the disaster has had the opposite effect. An expansion of offshore drilling was supposed to be one of the key compromises that would bring oil-state Democrats and moderate Republicans on board with a climate bill. Now, with the country’s appetite for offshore rigs vastly diminished, the compromise has collapsed.
New Mexico’s climate change debate will arrive at the state Supreme Court Monday afternoon.
The Court will hear oral arguments about a Lovington district judge’s decision to halt the state Environmental Improvement Board‘s formulation of a cap…
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner on Monday filed a temporary restraining order against Governor Bill Richardson, saying he hoped that move would halt the state’s plans to administratively cut greenhouse gas emissions from facilities such as coal- and natural…
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, the sole Democrat running for governor, signaled her opposition to state-level cap-and-trade in an op-ed for the Hobbs News-Sun.
“On Thursday, March 18, it was reported that the New Mexico Environment Department is seeking to…
According to a statement by Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., 14 Senators had a “good discussion” with President Barack Obama on climate legislation that most Senate Democrats hope to pass in 2010.
“We had a very good discussion…
President Barack Obama will be meeting today with a group of top Senators—including Sen. Jeff Bingaman—to discuss energy and climate legislation, according to The Hill.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman told the Associated Press that he believes the U.S. Senate is unlikely to pass a cap and trade bill in 2010. Bingaman, New Mexico’s senior Senator, chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., was instrumental in a deal with small refiners that helped controversial cap-and-trade legislation narrowly pass the House in June, but those refiners say they don’t support the bill in the Senate—which could have significance for Teague’s reelection.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) is going after Congressman Harry Teague for his vote on the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act which narrowly passed the House late last week. The NRCC is airing radio ads and…
A new article describes U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., as an attentive listener, straight shooter and gentleman who also has “a bit of a stubborn streak.” Sounds about right to me.
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.,…
