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 coalition of Democratic senators has signed onto a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, drafted by Tom Udall, D-N.M., urging climate action before the end of the year.
Former Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez is headed to Copenhagan to participate in a climate change panel at the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Chavez will participate in a panel called “Leadership and Innovation by US Cities and Local Governments.”
Joan Brown, osf, a Franciscan sister and Director of NM Interfaith Power & Light, is blogging from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which is happening Dec. 7-18. She went to Copenhagen with an international delegation of…
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that greenhouse gases endanger human health and the environment, and must be regulated.
“These long-overdue findings cement 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States Government began addressing the challenge…
The Albuquerque Climate Coalition is asking Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, now in his final days in office, to send the Climate Action Plan to the city council.
“An enormous effort and much time and dedication went into this plan by 60…
PNM Resources has joined a group that is designed to aid passage of a climate bill through Congress. This comes after PNM dropped out of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the Chamber’s anti-climate change legislation stance.
The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) is dropping its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the business group’s stance on climate change. Earlier this week, PNM criticized the Chamber of Commerce, saying, “We believe the…
The electricity provider for about 400,000 people in New Mexico, Public Service Company of New Mexico, or PNM, issued a statement yesterday urging support for the American Clean Energy and Security Act, which will be taken up by the…
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that the House will vote on a climate bill by Friday, the Dow Jones Newswires reported Monday evening.
According to an article in today’s edition of the Albuquerque Journal, a report says that “the effects of human-caused climate change” are already being felt in New Mexico. The effects come in the form of “rising temperatures and dwindling…
In a dramatic move yesterday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency withdrew the air quality permit it issued last summer for the Desert Rock coal-fired power plant, which is slated to be built in the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region just southwest of Farmington. The action drew praise from critics of the plant and blistering commentary from its proponents.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a finding today that six greenhouse gases cause air pollution that may endanger public health or welfare. The finding also found that emissions from motor vehicles contribute to the concentration of three of…
Rep. Ben Ray Luján spent part of his day speaking at a climate change rally and attending a climate briefing in Washington, D.C. The rally was a part of Power Shift ’09.
Former New Mexico U.S. Sen. Harrison “Jack” Schmitt made headlines when he said man-made effects on global warming aren’t real.
The New Mexico Republican was then invited to speak at a conference this March sponsored by the Heartland…
The “smart growth” crowd descends on the Duke City today for the beginning of a three-day conference.
The 8th annual New Partners for Smart Growth conference takes place January 22-24 at the Albuquerque Convention Center, bringing together…
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.,…
The future of coal-fired electricity is called into question as the nation ponders ways of reining in carbon emissions, but the major power provider in rural New Mexico says coal is here to stay.
Americans are just now coming to grips with the idea of bailing out Wall Street to the tune of nearly $1 trillion. The experts say it’s necessary to protect the country and perhaps the world from an economic apocalypse. But…
