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.
While appearing on radio host Alex Jones’ show in 2009, Harrison Schmitt said that leaders of the environmental movement are communists. Earlier this month, Gov. Susana Martinez selected Schmitt — a former U.S. Senator and astronaut — to head the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, which oversees environmental issues.
The midterm elections brought an unprecedented number of climate skeptics into Congress, with no incoming Republicans acknowledging the existence of man-made climate change. Environmentalists have all but given up on passing significant climate legislation in the near future, but in the long term, it may be difficult for climate skeptics to hold their ranks: Young Americans are significantly more concerned about global warming than older generations, and there are no major organizations of young climate skeptics.
Blaming competing demands like college midterms and the Balloon Fiesta, UNM organizers acknowledged a smaller-than-expected turnout for Sunday’s 10/10/10 “Take the Next Step” climate policy summit.
Despite live reggae and jazz music, and vendors offering pastries and locally-grown organic…
Susana Martinez isn’t the only big-ticket candidate in New Mexico’s fall elections who questions whether human society is the root cause of global warming. The three Republicans running for Congress expressed opposition to climate change legislation and were generally hesitant to acknowledge that human activity is having important negative effects on the planet.
The state Environmental Improvement Board will hold hearings on a proposed state cap on greenhouse gas emissions Aug. 16, but the proposal already faces determined opposition from business leaders and Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry.
Opponents of a…
A newly-released Sandia National Labs study analyzing projected rainfall patterns across the U.S. suggests that most — but not all — of the lower 48 states would suffer economically from unchecked climate change over the next four decades.…
The state Environmental Improvement Board can resume its consideration of state regulations to cap greenhouse gas emissions, The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday.
New Mexico’s Eastern Plains could see a second Dust Bowl caused by climate change, USA Today reported Friday. Oklahoma state climatologist Gary McManus is warning that changing precipitation patterns caused by climate change could be “catastrophic” for northeastern New…
By 2016, new cars should get an average of 35.5 miles per gallon, according to new vehicle emissions standards issued yesterday by the federal government.
The Obama administration says it is settling a long-running and contentious lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians, the Associated Press reports. Under an agreement announced today, the Interior Department will distribute $1.4 billion to more than 300,000 tribe…
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…
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department study, due next month, will show there are already significant threats posed to endangered species in the region by industrial and agricultural pollutants in the four corners region.
A poll (pdf) by the Mellman Group, a Democratic polling firm, found that a majority of voters in New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District see global warming as a “real and serious threat that is happening now.”
Perhaps the…
Senate Democrats unveiled the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (CEJAPA) today, their version of climate legislation. Already, the House passed the American Clean Energy & Security (ACES) Act. The bill, written by Senators John Kerry, D-Mass.,…
In addition to television ads, the controversial oil and coal industry-backed group CO2 is Green also bought a half-page ad in the Albuquerque Journal, notes Journal science writer John Fleck on his ABQJournal blog. But the group…
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 top inch of soil – that’s what Christopher Schueler wants to talk about.
I’m on the phone. Don’t know much about Schueler. But I’m about to learn. Documentary filmmaker, world traveler, winner of 17 Emmys, you might want to add…
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…
One of the many eye-catching slogans at the Albuquerque “tea party” on Wednesday was “Global warming is a socialist scam.” Versions of it were on several hand-held signs. Those signs were still in mind this morning when the Pew Research…
