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New Mexico Draft Bill Targets Net Zero by 2050

Jan 13, 2022

New Mexico lawmakers have released a draft of a bill that would set a statewide target of net-zero greenhouse emissions by 2050.

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NM Draft Bill Would Encourage Hydrogen Buildout

Nov 29, 2021

Elaine Goodman

New Mexico has released a “stakeholder discussion draft” of a bill that would offer tax breaks as an incentive for developing hydrogen infrastructure.

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Climate Alliance Governors Embrace ‘Friendly Competition’

Sep 23, 2021

Rich Heidorn Jr.

States are “moving the needle” on climate change but must continue challenging the federal government and each other, members of the U.S. Climate Alliance say.

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After Delay, NM Moves Toward Calif. Clean Car Standards

Aug 3, 2021

Elaine Goodman

New Mexico is heading toward adoption of California clean car standards, but environmental groups say officials are moving too slowly.

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9 Western Governors Sign EV Infrastructure MOU

Jul 5, 2021

Robert Mullin

Governors from nine Western states agreed to create an integrated network of zero-emission vehicle infrastructure to support travel and commerce in the region.

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NM Regulator Acknowledges Human-caused Climate Change

Declaration Could be a First Among State Utility Commissions

Jun 23, 2021

Elaine Goodman

A New Mexico utility regulator has declared that climate change is caused by human activity, establishing the assertion as scientific fact beyond debate.

UPDATED: Nevada Clean Energy Amendment Winning

New Mexico Reforms Public Regulation Commission

Nov 9, 2020

Hudson Sangree

[UPDATED Nov. 9 11:25 a.m. ET to reflect election results.] A measure in Nevada to enshrine a clean energy mandate in the state constitution is heading to victory, while New Mexico voters approved an overhaul of their state’s Public Regulation Commission, and Arizonans elected another Democrat to the state’s Corporation...

Climate Policy on the Ballot Tuesday

State Voters to Choose Regulators, Clean Energy Targets

Nov 2, 2020

Hudson Sangree and Rich Heidorn Jr.

Although the coronavirus pandemic has sucked up most of the oxygen in this year’s presidential and congressional races, West Coast wildfires, record-breaking heat waves and more than two dozen tropical storms have also made climate change an issue impossible for voters to ignore. President Trump pledged to withdraw the U.S.

Texas Public Utility Commission Briefs: Oct. 16, 2020

PUC Approves El Paso Electric Gas Plant

Oct 19, 2020

Tom Kleckner

Texas regulators last week approved El Paso Electric’s request to build a gas-fired generator that has drawn opposition from the city and local environmentalists. During its open meeting Friday, the Texas Public Utility Commission amended a certificate of convenience and necessity for an additional generating unit at EPE’s Newman Generating...

Energy Amendments on NM, Nevada Ballots

Effort to Reform New Mexico’s PRC has Backing of Governor, Lawmakers

Oct 4, 2020

Hudson Sangree

Voters in New Mexico and Nevada will make major decisions on their states’ energy futures come Election Day in November. In Nevada, a constitutional amendment on the ballot asks if the state should commit to a clean-energy future like its neighbors California, New Mexico and Washington. In New Mexico, lawmakers...

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