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Direct your energy where it counts - oppose corporate capture
In conversation with our friends, neighbors, bank clerks, random passersby, we are struck by the fact that the people are paying close...
Feb 27
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
A Victory! Our plea for protection of the sacred results in fracking waste reuse removal from Strategic Water Supply, but reuse schemes still on the docket
On Wednesday night Defend NM Water lit up the Roundhouse with a plea to our legislators: Don't Gamble with our Water! Roberto Roibal read...
Feb 21
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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