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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.

New Mexico will be getting up to $100 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help build and run a New Mexico integrated biorefinery project near Columbus, New Mexico. The demonstration-scale facility “will cultivate algae in ponds that will ultimately be converted into green fuels, such as jet fuel and diesel, using the [...]

The Republican Party, from the state to the national level, has revealed one of its talking points in trying to defeat Congressman Harry Teague, a Hobbs Democrat, and recapture the seat which had been in Republican hands for decades.
Teague’s vote on the American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act of 2009 has become a lightning [...]

What the global warming deniers have done is to create a political dead space, a vacuum in which global warming gases have soared and technology, legislation and capital have lagged sorely behind despite far thinking companies and governments.

Secretary of Energy Steven Chu will be making his first visit to New Mexico since becoming the head of the Department of Energy, according to John Fleck at the Albuquerque Journal.
Chu will visit the Los Alamos and Sandia national labs on Thursday and Friday, according to a preliminary schedule relayed by U.S. Sen. Tom Udall.

In a letter to the head of the U.S. Department of Energy, New Mexico’s junior senator urged diversification as a way to grow the role of Los Alamos and Sandia national labs.

Corn-based ethanol made in coal-fired plants is becoming more popular, and more criticized. New Mexico’s alternative-energy researchers stand to learn a lesson the fast-deflating ethanol bubble.

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Steven Chu, who will oversee the labs at Los Alamos and Sandia as energy secretary, got his first taste of Washington Tuesday.
And by all reports it was a friendly affair.
Chu appeared Tuesday before Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s committee, Energy and Natural Resources, which has jurisdiction over the federal department. And neither controversy nor tension reared its ugly head between [...]

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Sen. Jeff Bingaman wasn’t informed of President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for secretary of interior or secretary of energy before they were made public.
Bingaman is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, which will have the confirmation hearings for both Ken Salazar, Obama’s pick for secretary [...]