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No False Solutions
False climate solutions are technological or market based schemes promoted by fossil fuel companies and their political allies to give the appearance of meaningful climate action while actually functioning to delay effective policies that might challenge their power, control, and/or profits. These include carbon offset and trading schemes that commodify land, and water while failing to reduce emissions, as well as unproven tech like hydrogen, carbon capture & fracking waste reuse.


WE WON! TAINTED VOTE ON "WATR" ALLIANCE PETITION VACATED!
The outcome was not at all certain as water advocates and public health protectors filed into the WQCC meeting yesterday, where Commissioners would decide the outcome of three formal motions to disqualify Commissioners and vacate a prior decision to allow a hearing on a WATR Alliance fracking waste discharge petition. Despite an extraordinary scene in which the people defied the Chair's surprise announcement that public comment on the fracking waste issue would not be heard ,
Nov 14, 2025


An important NM Supreme Court decision on climate, and a pivotal hearing to decide if tainted WQCC Commissioners must be disqualified
We are thrilled to report that the NM Supreme Court has agreed  to hear the landmark lawsuit  filed in 2023 by a coalition of Indigenous, frontline, youth and environmental organizations and community members over the state’s failure to protect public health and the environment from the harms of oil and gas pollution, as required by the state constitution. The lawsuit, Atencio v. State of New Mexico,  is the first to challenge the state for violating the pollution control c
Nov 12, 2025


Decisions by regulators at WQCC and PRC put industry and private equity investors above the people
As we reported briefly last week, a coalition of fracking waste reuse proponents hypocritically calling themselves the Water Access...
Jul 8, 2025


BCP Buyout of NM Gas Derailed after our Joint Motion to Dismiss. Also Sign our petition to end EMNRD's gaslighting. Hydrogen is not Zero-Carbon!
As we reported last week, New Energy Economy joined the New Mexico Department of Justice, and other advocates in a motion to dismiss or...
Jun 11, 2025
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