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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
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
Energy justice is environmental justice. Utility legislation at the Roundhouse could affect all New Mexicans.
Energy policy is central to economic and environmental justice policy. This year energy bills on the docket run the gamut from bills...
Feb 18
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
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle
Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a time to honor the extraordinary life and enduring legacy of Dr. King. As a leader in the civil rights...
Jan 20
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
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
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
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 12, 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 15, 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 10, 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 8, 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...
Aug 7, 2024
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