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Attorney General Torrez: 'It is simply inexcusable for them to continue to place profits over people'
Energy

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez filed a lawsuit targeting 21 companies that reportedly continue producing toxic PFAS chemicals.


Environmental groups sue state officials: ‘New Mexico’s failure to control oil and gas pollution violates our constitution and fundamental human rights’
Energy

A coalition of citizens and environmental groups has sued the state of New Mexico, its state legislature, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham and other state agencies for violating their state's constitutional duty to control pollution from the oil and gas industry.


Land commissioner Garcia Richard: 'This program has proven that we can require companies to clean up after themselves'
Energy

The State Land Office has chronicled more than 200 inactive oil and natural gas wells in New Mexico that have been plugged.


State invests in funds run by firms who “may be boycotting” oil and gas
Energy

The state’s pension investments in funds with reputations of being averse to oil and gas in New Mexico is rankling industry-aligned lawmakers, who point to the outsized footprint the sector has on the state’s economy.


CCIA chairman calls for Lujan Grisham to 'push for a friendlier relationship with the oil industry'
Energy

Experts at the Coalition of Conservatives in Action (CCIA) are calling on the Biden administration to increase the domestic production of oil in New Mexico, in order to offset the rising cost of gasoline across the nation.


CCIA energy expert calls for increased oil production in New Mexico: It is 'our privilege and our responsibility'
Energy

The Coalition of Conservatives in Action (CCIA) is calling for immediate increased oil production in New Mexico to mitigate the rising cost of gasoline.


New Mexico continues clean energy push as solar panel supplier China ramps up coal production to meet shortages
Energy

Power shortages across many provinces have forced the Chinese government to order its coal mines to produce as much coal as possible to prepare for winter.


'Encouraged': Lujan commends Biden's plans to block new oil or gas drilling in Chaco Culture National Historical Park 'to protect this very sacred place'
Energy

The Biden administration recently announced plans to block any new oil or gas leasing around Chaco Culture National Historical Park for the next two years.


Critic finds New Mexico's goal of all-renewable electricity impossible, and subsidies 'will never change that'
Energy

The goal of New Mexico and other states to switch completely to electricity from renewable energy is an impossible dream, according to Bill Peacock, policy director of The Energy Alliance, a project of the Texas Business Coalition.


Tap Rock Operating linked to multiple oil and gas infractions, accidents in New Mexico
Energy

Tap Rock Operating, LLC has been involved in several accidents and is the subject of regulatory violations in New Mexico, according to crowdsourced reports.


New Mexico holds public hearings on new rules for oil and gas sector; small-business 'concerns' aired
Energy

New Mexico’s Environment Department held public hearings on proposed rule changes that could impact its oil and gas industry.