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 is considering reversing former Gov. Richardson’s cap and trade program on carbon dioxide emissions because the upfront costs are proving too much to bear.
Deputy Secretary of the state’s Environment Department, Butch Tongate, testified before the Environmental Improvement Board…
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resource Defense Council are suing the state for issuing an air permit for a coal-burning power generation facility planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City.
Between 50 and 150 New Mexicans’ deaths each year in San Juan County are caused by air pollution from coal-fired power plant emissions, according to estimates in a study released Thursday by the Clean Air Task Force…
Albuquerque-based Samcon, Inc. has won a $738,000 state contract for a second attempt to stabilize soil and encourage vegetation growth to control erosion at a large abandoned coal mine waste pile in the Sugarite Canyon State Park, northeast of…
Last month’s deadly explosion at the Upper Big Branch coal mine in southern West Virginia, and the more recent fatal blast on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the coast of Louisiana, have at least this much in common: Both were likely preventable, according to a growing number of lawmakers and workplace safety experts — if only federal regulations designed to prevent such disasters had been enforced.
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…
As it promised months ago, The Sierra Club on Thursday filed suit against the San Juan Coal Company and PNM, which operates the San Juan Power Generating Station, alleging that the dumping of ash and sludge from the power generating station…
According to The Hill, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is not backing off his proposal to require that utilities provide 15 percent of their power from renewable energy sources by 2021. This comes after Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., released a…
No new coal plants broke ground in 2009, the Sierra Club said in a statement last week. The group refers to “the coal rush” that it says began in 2001 when 150 proposed coal-fired plants were announced. Since then, 111…
The government has denied Desert Rock Energy Company’s bid for a federal stimulus grant, the Farmington Daily Times reported today. The company had hoped to use the money to include carbon capture sequestration technology into the project design of a coal-fired…
New Mexico’s largest utility company, Public Service Company of New Mexico, has completed a major environmental upgrade of its San Juan Generating Station coal-fired power plant, the company announced in a statement today.
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.
