New Energy Economy News

Read the latest updates on our legal actions, just transition initiatives, Sol for ALL! projects, recent media, and more....
click drop-down menu to filter posts by campaign

Oct 1, 2024

Come out from behind your desk...

Around the world last month millions were displaced, hundreds of thousands lost their homes, thousands died and billions of creatures,...

Sep 20, 2024

So what's the difference between false solutions and real climate action?

Last week we sent out an email announcing the sad news that we, collectively, are failing to change the trajectory of methane emissions...

Sep 11, 2024

Friends, we are failing. What can we expect over the next ten to twenty years?

Though we at New Energy Economy often report on our wins in the regulatory arena, the truth is that we, collectively, are failing. We are...

Aug 26, 2024

The stacks fall, but emissions keep rising. Do we have the will to live?

Last week the stacks at the San Juan Generating Station came down after operating for more than 50 years and emitting more than 12...

Jul 24, 2024

O'Connell must recuse

On Tuesday New Energy Economy once again filed a Motion to Recuse Commissioner Patrick O'Connell because, once again, PNM's uneconomic...

Jun 24, 2024

Dueling headlines a painful illustration of New Mexico's outsize role in the climate crisis

Headlines from the Current Argus and the Santa Fe New Mexican Last Week Make no mistake. New Mexico is a petrostate, and like other...

Mar 14, 2024

New Mexicans Win! PRC Issues Final Order Rejecting New Mexico Gas Company proposed LNG plant

Today the Public Regulation Commission held a Special Session in which it unanimously approved a final order in Case No. 22-003039-UT...

Mar 10, 2024

NM Supreme Court Justices issue same-day decision rejecting bid to delay Community Solar in a scathing rebuke of monopoly investor owned utilities in New Mexico

This morning the NM Supreme Court heard arguments on the appeal brought by the monopoly utilities in New Mexico (PNM, El Paso Electric...

Mar 1, 2024

Today we appealed the inadequate disallowance in the PNM rate case, settled the NMGC rate case and filed our Community Solar brief

New Energy Economy today filed Notice of Appeal at the NM Supreme Court in PNM’s recent rate case. The Public Regulation Commission...

Feb 21, 2024

Victory! Hearing Examiner Recommends Denial of LNG Plant

Today PRC Hearing Examiner Anthony Medeiros issued his Recommended Decision in Case No. 22-003039-UT, recommending that the Public...

Feb 16, 2024

We won some big fights and lost others

The 56th Legislature has come to a close, and together those of us who advocate for a "first do no harm" approach to the earth won some...

Feb 12, 2024

Governor's Strategic Water Supply on life support

With your help, and with a unified voice from environmental and water protection groups across the state, we have succeeded in convincing...

Feb 8, 2024

Act today to prevent fracking waste from becoming part of our water supply

The 30 day session moves so fast that we often have almost no time to react, but there are still seven days left for the Governor's...

Feb 7, 2024

Low Carbon Fuel Standard laws like HB41 primarily prop up biofuels backed by Big Ag and Big Oil

We know that some environmental organizations support Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) policies like the one HB41 sets up, but this policy...

Jan 23, 2024

Bleeding New Mexico Dry - Proposed "Strategic Water Supply" is a bailout and a scam that endangers our health and our water

Yesterday we were joined by members of the No False Solutions Coalition, Amigos Bravos, WildEarth Guardians and Norm Gaume, professional...

Jan 17, 2024

Victory at NM Supreme Court against utility obstruction of Community Solar and a call for action from YUCCA

Yesterday the New Mexico Supreme Court rejected the efforts of Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS) to stay the implementation of...

Jan 15, 2024

This week: 8% bill reduction victory; fighting for community solar at the PRC & HB108

First, in a historic victory PNM's compliance filing reveals that the actual results of the imprudence findings and disallowances won in...

Jan 2, 2024

Avangrid Out! Our path to energy democracy just got so much brighter!

Today it was announced that Avangrid and its parent company Iberdrola opted to walk away from their proposed merger with PNM just before...

Dec 31, 2023

On this eve of the new year we are grateful for our connection with you

I need you to walk with me - so we can remember why we are doing this, together. Each morning I walk through the remaining wild lands...

Dec 21, 2023

"Resist Dance" in a state awash in oil and gas money

To those of you who have not seen it yet, an article on the front page of the Santa Fe New Mexican on Monday notes that "New Mexico’s oil...