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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.
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
Stripper wells get a 100% tax exemption?!!! Is this really a blue state?
As you know a long sought update to the Oil and Gas Act to protect New Mexico children from the health impacts of oil and gas drilling...
Feb 22, 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
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 12, 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
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...
Feb 7, 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
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 23, 2024
"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
Protection of Life Requires Regulation and Enforcement. That means courage and Leadership to put the sacred before profit.
NY Skyline Before and After Passage of the Clean Air Act Last night, in a stunning display of cowardice and corporate dominance over...
Dec 5, 2023
Who is dying and who is lying?
On November 18th the planet’s temperature rose past the 2.0 degree Celsius mark for the first time, a terrifying reminder that "we're now...
Nov 27, 2023
Thanks to you Bernalillo County Commission resolution opposing LNG passed 4-1. What's next??
Watch KRQE Coverage of the Resolution During the Bernalillo County Commission meeting yesterday many members of the public came out to...
Oct 24, 2023
Reminder - take action to oppose new fossil fuel infrastructure in New Mexico before 5:00PM tomorrow
We are grateful to the Bernalillo County Commission for bringing a strong resolution (page 370) opposing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) and...
Oct 22, 2023
New Mexico delegation makes powerful call: New Mexico is Burning - Biden and MLG: Climate Action Now
Following on the heels of the powerful NM climate strike demanding an end to false climate solutions led by YUCCA last week in...
Sep 18, 2023
Join the growing number of New Mexicans opposing new fossil fuel infrastructure
Did you know that President Biden is coming to New Mexico to tout his climate bonafides next week? To point to the Inflation Reduction...
Jul 31, 2023
Floods, fires & deadly heat are alarm bells of a planet on the brink. NMGC wants to turn up the heat
Today's headline in the Washington post - a planet on the brink. Finally the mainstream media appears to understand the magnitude and...
Jul 12, 2023
Historic lawsuit filed today to hold the State of New Mexico accountable for unchecked oil & gas
We were honored today to stand in solidarity with a coalition of Indigenous peoples, youth, frontline community members and environmental...
May 9, 2023
That's weak sauce! SB520 Needs Amendments to Earn Our Support
Tomorrow at 9:00AM Senate Conservation will hear SB 520, the Clean Futures Act. (Room 311, https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82404382748) After...
Mar 6, 2023
ENERGY POLICY IS ON THE AGENDA... & NEW RESEARCH SHOWS HYDROGEN PROLONGS METHANE'S CLIMATE IMPACTS
The 2023 Legislative Session has officially begun, and there's so much at stake. It was an emotional start as we attended YUCCA (Youth...
Jan 20, 2023
It's All Hydrogen All the Time Here - NMED Secretary Kenney's motto
In another episode of "FOLLOW THE MONEY," we learned last year that the Governor relied on a study prepared by a former chairman of NMOGA...
Jan 13, 2023
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