Yesterday at the evidentiary hearing to determine whether Blackstone and PNM broke the law with their $400 million unsanctioned stock transaction, Blackstone and PNM continued to argue that the law does not actually say what the law says. There is no 10% control threshold to trigger the requirement to get PRC permission, even if at one time a draft of a bill once said that and a newspaper once reported about the draft! They also continued throwing up smoke to try to obscure t

Today in Columbia representatives from more than 50 nations, dozens of subnational governments and 2800 representatives from civil societies, a "coalition of the willing," continue their five day global conference to reinvigorate international efforts to reduce climate warming emissions outside of the Paris Accords COP process, which has largely been hijacked by fossil fuel interests and petrostates like the United States and Saudi Arabia. The group has formed a panel of scie

Last night more than 400 New Mexicans showed up at the PRC public comment hearing about the Blackstone buyout of PNM and spoke loud and clear: Blackstone is not wanted in New Mexico. More than 300 people came in person and signed up, but only about 70 got a chance to speak! Well over 100 were waiting online on zoom and not one of them got the chance. People were lined up outside in the hallway because the room could not contain everyone. People listened from the parking lot.

What happens when an inexperienced and profit driven gas company cuts costs and fails to properly maintain its facilities and operations? On Tuesday dozens of New Mexicans showed up to the PRC's public comment hearing about Bernhard Capital Partner's bid to buy New Mexico Gas Company and asked that very important question. How can a private equity company focused exclusively on profit, and with just three months experience running a gas utility, be trusted to provide safe an

Some have written to us with concerns about the Blackstone proposal to acquire PNM and whether Avangrid would have been preferable, but...

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

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

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...

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...

First, thank you to all those of you who signed up to speak at the Public Comment hearing last week on Thursday! Your message was heard...

A bipartisan bill introduced last week and passed already through the House Energy and Natural Resources Committee would pre-empt the...

This morning Senate Conservation had a full house once again. After a brief presentation of the bill by Sponsor, Senator Carrie Hamblen...

You know you're doing something right when PNM names the Local Choice Energy Act as its top priority to kill this session. We are proud...

New Energy Economy operates on the theory that change requires both courageous opposition to the violence of the fossil fuel economy AND...

The energy crossroads at which we stand is not just about fossil fuels or renewables, but about who controls the process, who owns the...

Yesterday the NM Supreme Court granted PNM's Motion for Stay, allowing PNM to continue charging ratepayers for the operating costs of the...

On August 17th, Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS) filed a Motion to Stay Implementation of Community Solar at the NM Supreme...

Kicking off the PNM, Avangrid & Chevron sponsored energy summit today - the head of JP Morgan Chase communications, PNM CEO Pat...

Despite the PRC's ruling that a PNM/Avangrid merger would not be in the public interest, Avangrid & PNM to co-host energy summit &...