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 Public Regulation Commission has a history of controversy — after all, it’s an entity that has seen two former commissioners arrested and another one sued for sexual harassment — but on Tuesday (Jan. 8), there were no fireworks after commissioners selected a new chairman on a 3-2 vote.
Ben Hall defeated Theresa Becenti-Aguilar, replacing Pat [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

A Democratic state representative says he’s planning to introduce a resolution in the upcoming legislative session to protest the Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of a plan adopted by the state to clean up the air surrounding the coal-fired San Juan power plant outside Farmington. Instead, the EPA has insisted on a tougher, more expensive plan [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]