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Dec 3, 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...
Nov 28, 2024
Pausing to Reflect, Preparing to Act
This week, as we gather with loved ones or find quiet moments alone, we are reminded of the power of reflection. At New Energy Economy,...
Nov 15, 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 12, 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 5, 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...
Oct 22, 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 16, 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 8, 2024
We can stop Oil and Gas companies from further poisoning our water with PFAS
New Energy Economy has intervened at the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) to support the adoption of a rule proposed by...
Sep 23, 2024
PNM caught a break from regulators while it sent out an average of 22,000 disconnect notices per month
In 2022 PNM sent out an average of 22,000 disconnect notices per month. Each one of those notices constitutes a family emergency, putting...
Sep 20, 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 11, 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 3, 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...
Aug 14, 2024
At close of fracking waste reuse hearing Commissioner Zemlick asks the key question...Why is a reuse rule necessary?
On the final day of testimony at the fracking waste reuse hearing New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA) witnesses tried to argue...
Aug 9, 2024
Should New Mexico have worse water protections than Texas?
First, thank you to everyone who has shown up to raise their voice against corporate exploitation and profiteering at the expense of our...
Aug 7, 2024
Our expert witnesses eviscerate reuse proponent arguments
Over the past three days our three expert witnesses, including former director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission Norm Gaume,...
Aug 6, 2024
Hearing reconvenes amid outcry from the public and questionable reshuffling of Commissioners
Yesterday the fracking waste reuse hearing got off to a strange start when WQCC Commissioner McWilliams, who was called out by for...
Jul 24, 2024
O'Connell must recuse
On Tuesday New Energy Economy once again filed a Motion to Recuse Commissioner Patrick O'Connell because, once again, PNM's uneconomic...
Jul 16, 2024
Justin Nobel's Research Uncovered How Oil and Gas Preys on Vulnerable People to do their dangerous work
As we all continue to struggle with the increasing chaos, violence and uncertainty that pervades US political life, we can take comfort...
Jul 9, 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 5, 2024
Commissioner Krista McWilliams’ claim to have no personal or professional conflicts of interest in the produced water reuse case further disproven by damning additional evidence
Water Quality Control Commissioner Krista McWilliams starring in a video paid for and hosted on NMOGA's website in which she falsely...
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