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Oil and Gas Industry
New Mexico is the second highest producer of oil and natural gas in the country, and the Permian Basin's 2025 production is expected to account for 49% of the total U.S. production. With that extraction comes destruction of land, water and air quality, significant public health hazards and political corruption that is turning parts of New Mexico into a sacrifice zone and warming the planet at terrifying speed.
Oil and Gas is going on offense after climate impacts cause the potential for real action. Fight back tomorrow!
Have you noticed the uptick and audacity of fear-mongering ads from the oil and gas industry blanketing the airwaves lately? They are...
Feb 14, 2025
Strategic Water Supply got a yes vote, but the antidote is up tomorrow. Action needed today!
First the good news - HB 169, the Public Expression Protection Act passed in House Consumer and Public Affairs yesterday and HB 35, Oil...
Feb 12, 2025
Our values - equality, justice and free speech are under attack. Act today. Also Strategic Water Supply back tomorrow!
Listen to Senator Harold Pope Jr. Speaks Out Against the Erasure of Black History Anyone paying attention right now is seeing the pillars...
Feb 10, 2025
Strategic Water Supply vote delayed after questions raised! Tomorrow critical bills to protect against Biogas and PFAS
Yesterday after receiving all your calls, cards and emails about HB 137, the Strategic Water Supply, and hearing powerful public comment...
Feb 7, 2025
Action Alert! Amended version of Strategic Water Supply filed
The Strategic Water Supply (HB 137) is up for its first hearing in House Agriculture tomorrow at 9:00AM in Room 315. (...
Feb 5, 2025
What's the antidote to the Strategic Water Supply and oceans of oil and gas waste? New bill - SB 178. The Polluter Must Pay.
What is one antidote to the Strategic Water Supply, the Governor's dangerous false solution to New Mexico's water scarcity and the oil...
Feb 1, 2025
The Clear Horizons Act passed its first hurdle! On the docket the rest of this week..
Press Conference today in Support of SB 99 - the "No Fuel Less Than Zero Carbon Intensity" Bill to Prevent a Clean Fuel Loophole that...
Jan 28, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
Not natural disasters. Crimes against creation.
First, we are grateful and humbled by the extraordinary support that our community has shown to New Energy Economy. We set out to raise...
Jan 10, 2025
Hope is not delicate; she's feisty.
As Ursula K. Le Guin once said: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power...
Dec 31, 2024
Discussion draft of new Strategic Water Supply Act reveals plan is still a bailout for oil and gas industry
The Governor’s latest version of a "Strategic Water Supply Act," according to a December 3rd discussion draft, provides $75M in public...
Dec 27, 2024
Did Chevron and Occidental submit falsified remediation reports in NM? We asked the AG to investigate. Also NM Court upholds our First Amendment rights.
On Friday New Energy Economy formally requested the NM Department of Justice to use their authority to instigate an investigation to...
Dec 19, 2024
Final Fracking Waste Reuse Response Brief filed as new Strategic Water Supply Once Again on the Agenda
On Friday we filed our final brief response brief and alternative language for the New Mexico Environment Department’s proposed “Ground...
Dec 10, 2024
It's time to take this fight to the States. That's where we live.
This year, New Energy Economy has taken on some of the biggest challenges facing our state—and won. Against powerful interests and...
Dec 3, 2024
"¡Ya basta!" Enough is enough.
The PFAS hearing at the Oil Conservation Commission just wrapped up, and we want to share our heartfelt thanks for the over 100 members...
Nov 15, 2024
Public shows up en masse to ask OCC to protect our water from PFAS
This morning at the Oil Conservation Commission the PFAS prohibition hearing began, and the public showed up en masse to ask the...
Nov 12, 2024
Today is a momentous day, but NMOGA is not distracted from its maneuvering to continue poisoning New Mexico
Today is a momentous day, and it can be hard to pay attention to anything but the election, but you can bet the corporate polluters of...
Nov 5, 2024
"Trade Secrets" are deadly secrets
In 1997 our expert witness in the PFAS rulemaking, Kris Hansen, was hired by 3M and tasked by her supervisor to look for PFOS (one type...
Oct 22, 2024
One pound of PFAS can contaminate 34 Elephant Butte Reservoirs
Cows in Clovis are euthanized after being contaminated with PFAS laced water. On Tuesday NMED Secretary Kenney's gave a presentation at...
Oct 16, 2024
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