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Comprehensive Needs Assessment, Cleaning Up the Toxic Mess of the Extractive Economy, and Reparations
PFAS Protections & Local Solar Access Fund pass last committees! One call for free speech, one email for utility justice
First the excellent news. HB 140, the Hazardous Waste Constituent Definition Act to regulate PFAS in waste streams in New Mexico and HB...
Mar 18
Celebrating three new victories, together we CAN rise against all adversity
Even while the government works hand in hand with polluters—rolling back 31 critical federal environmental protections under new EPA...
Mar 13
Democratic Senators betray our children, our future and our Mother Earth in Shameful Vote Against SB 4
Yesterday in a unanimous vote legislators in House Judiciary passed HB 169, the Public Expression Protection Act, a win for free speech,...
Feb 25
Energy justice is environmental justice. Utility legislation at the Roundhouse could affect all New Mexicans.
Energy policy is central to economic and environmental justice policy. This year energy bills on the docket run the gamut from bills...
Feb 18
Courage needed at the Roundhouse...
On Tuesday we joined YUCCA at the Roundhouse to call on the Governor and New Mexico legislators for climate courage. It was a cold one -...
Jan 25
Our 2025 Legislative Priority - Protect People, Not Profits
We are less than one week away from the start of the 2025 Legislative Session and to no one's surprise, there are already so many...
Jan 16
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,...
Oct 2, 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 21, 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...
Sep 12, 2024
PNM prevails against one of the few Just Transition provisions included in the ETA
Yesterday the NM Supreme Court denied the petition for a Writ of Mandamus filed by New Energy Economy on behalf of a bipartisan group of...
Sep 4, 2024
Writ of Mandamus filed at NM Supreme Court on behalf of 15 Legislators to enforce PNM's obligation to impacted communities after the closure of the San Juan Coal Plant
On June 13th a bipartisan group of legislators represented by New Energy Economy filed a Motion to Intervene and Motion for Rehearing in...
Jul 10, 2024
NM Supreme Court Upholds Commission Oversight Over Energy Efficiency and Load Management Utility Expenditures in Decoupling Case
The Supreme Court today issued its decision on decoupling and determined that the Efficient Use of Energy Act requires a “full revenue...
May 13, 2024
Thanks to you that outrageous stripper well tax exemption got stripped from the tax omnibus!
Thank you to the more than 400 people who took action to call on the Governor to line-item veto the outrageous tax exemption for stripper...
Mar 8, 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 16, 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 8, 2024
Tell the Governor and the Legislature: New Mexico is not for sale!
As this legislative session proceeds there is one theme we are witnessing across multiple bills - a desperate attempt to sell New Mexico...
Feb 2, 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 17, 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...
Jan 2, 2024
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 31, 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...
Dec 21, 2023
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