New Mexico Climate Change News
Stories in this feed are from newspapers in New Mexico courtesy of Environmental Health News.
AG joins fray over EPA's new greenhouse gas regulations.
New Mexico has become the 13th state to side with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s new rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions from oil refineries, cement facilities and coal power plants, Attorney General Gary King announced Thursday.
Students raise awareness of climate change's effects on local wildlife.
Silver City students got an opportunity to learn how local wildlife might be affected by climate change when they participated in presentations and roundtable discussion and got to hear from wildlife experts.
State climate change regulations face opposition.
As states grapple with how to move forward on the issue of climate change, in New Mexico, gubernatorial candidates on both side of the aisle agree that climate change regulation is not a state’s prerogative.
Judge halts greenhouse gas case.
A judge on Tuesday ordered the state Environmental Improvement Board to halt consideration of an environmental group's controversial petition to cap greenhouse gases in New Mexico until he decides whether the EIB has authority to do so.
Candidate adds legal fight to emissions battle.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Doug Turner said he filed a lawsuit Friday intended to head-off new emissions regulations being considered by the state Environment Department.
Agency ponders emission petition.
If a statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions is set, it could result in hundreds of area job losses and astronomically high electricity rates; on the other hand, not passing a cap could result in more respiratory illnesses and deaths here, particularly among children.
Hearing to look into gas emissions.
On Monday, the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board will hold a public hearing on a petition to reduce the level of greenhouse gas emissions in New Mexico to 25 percent below 1990 levels by 2020, and it could impact just about every New Mexican.
Greenhouse gas emission may be controlled.
Discussion on emission control has hit home as a petition for a statewide cap is being considered by the state Environmental Improvement Board.
Gov. takes aim at coal-fired power plants.
Gov. Bill Richardson has painted a target on New Mexico's coal-fired power plants, saying they provide a major source of electricity for homes and businesses in the state but pump far too much pollution into the air.
Suit could block state action on carbon emissions.
Local utilities, businesses and some state legislators filed a joint lawsuit Wednesday challenging the state Environmental Improvement Board’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in New Mexico.