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New Mexico State Land Trusts Advisory Board announces upcoming public meeting
The New Mexico State Land Trusts Advisory Board is scheduled to hold a public meeting on Thursday, October 10, 2024, starting at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will take place at New Mexico State University, Gerald Thomas Hall in Las Cruces, NM. Participants can also attend via audio and video conference.
Land commissioner Garcia Richard: 'This program has proven that we can require companies to clean up after themselves'
The State Land Office has chronicled more than 200 inactive oil and natural gas wells in New Mexico that have been plugged.
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State invests in funds run by firms who “may be boycotting” oil and gas
By New Mexico Sun | Oct 20, 2022
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.
New Mexico continues clean energy push as solar panel supplier China ramps up coal production to meet shortages
By George Willis | Nov 20, 2021
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'
By Andy Nghiem | Nov 18, 2021
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.