It’s been a fight filled with dueling contentions of costs and threats of lawsuits that’s been going on for a year and a half, but on Friday (Feb. 15) an agreement was reached regarding the San Juan Generating Station in the Four Corners area of New Mexico.
“This agreement reflects a compromise,” the state’s Environment Department Secretary David Martin [...]

The Navajo Nation Council has declared its support for Heather Wilson for U.S. Senate.  An October 17, 2012, letter signed by Johnny Naize, the Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council, while not explicitly calling upon tribal members to vote for Wilson, sends a clear message that the leaders of the largest Native American tribe in [...]

Here’s footage of PNM’s power plant New Energy Economy wants to shut down and convert to purely solar power.  The camera goes inside the control and turbine rooms of the San Juan Generating Plant, as well as getting close-ups of the steam and other emissions coming from the stacks.  After our report that New Energy [...]

An environmental group that wants PNM to stop using coal to generate electricity is using deceptive and misleading images in its billboard campaign.  New Energy Economy on July 2, 2012, announced an advertising campaign to pressure PNM to switch completely to solar power.  Its campaign, entitled “Coal Hurts,” shows a child sucking air through a [...]

As New Mexico’s largest  solar manufacturing plant closes, a Santa Fe environmental group has launched an advertising campaign to pressure PNM to move from coal exclusively to solar generated electricity.  Motorists passing through Albuquerque’s Big I now see a colorful billboard announcing “Coal Hurts.”  New Energy Economy, the group which has pushed for carbon caps [...]

Earlier this week, a video surfaced that caused an uproar.
During a 2010 discussion about getting the oil and gas industry to follow federal guidelines, an administrator with the Environmental Protection Agency named Al Armendariz compared enforcing EPA rules to what he described as measures the ancient Romans used in its colonies:
“Oil and gas is an [...]

Back on June 2, the state’s Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) unanimously passed a less costly plan aimed at reducing regional haze from the coal-fired San Juan power plant outside Farmington.
But on Friday (Aug. 5), the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington rejected the plan, insisting the plant be retrofitted with cleaner technololgy. The state’s largest [...]

It may have been a highly technical decision and it may or may not have any impact on future decisions the Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) could make regarding rolling back controversial regulations that were passed late last year, but the New Mexico Supreme Court on Wednesday (July 27) handed a net victory for [...]

In a quicker than expected decision, the state’s Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) unanimously voted Thursday (June 2) to reject a measure backed by the federal government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) aimed at reducing regional haze from the San Juan power plant outside Farmington and chose to adopt a statewide plan that is less costly.
The San [...]

Approve a costly plan regulating the amount of pollution that causes haze in the atmosphere or adopt a plan that isn’t as stringent but would cost New Mexico electricity customers a lot less money?
That’s what the newly-constituted Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) will decide in the next few days as the members of the board appointed [...]