Environmental Improvement Board passes another emissions standard for NM
One month after passing a controversial cap and trade agreement, the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) on Monday (Dec. 6) passed another sweeping measure aimed at lowering the state’s...
View ArticleMartinez Administration responds to new emissions cap
Susana Martinez, Governor-elect of NM In the wake of the Environmental Improvement Board’s decision Monday (Dec. 6) to pass a statewide cap on greenhouse gas emissions, Danny Diaz, the spokesman for...
View ArticleEnviros win in court vs. Governor
The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled in a 5-0 decision Wednesday (Jan. 26) in favor of an environmental group that sued Gov. Susana Martinez, claiming the governor improperly requested the state’s...
View ArticleSusana at large: Gov. Martinez on climate change, film program and reducing...
Gov. Susana Martinez held a wide-ranging news conference Wednesday (Jan. 26) in which she announced a moratorium on the leasing and purchasing of state vehicles but she also touched on a number of...
View ArticleAnalysis: Attempts to kill cap and trade in NM not dead yet
Like that scene in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” the fight to undo cap and trade in New Mexico isn’t dead yet. Two pieces of legislation aimed at reversing regulations passed by the state...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists pick up a win in NM Supreme Court
It may have been a highly technical decision and it may or may not have any impact on future decisions the Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) could make regarding rolling back controversial...
View ArticleEnvironmental board OK’s hearings to overturn NM’s “cap and trade” rules
Environmental Improvement Board Let the debate begin … again. Just eight months after the Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) passed a landmark “cap and trade” agreement and seven months after it...
View ArticleTwo members of NM environmental board recuse themselves from cap and trade...
EIB meeting, 10/3/11 Two members of the newly-constituted Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) recused themselves on Monday (Oct. 3) from an upcoming review that could potentially roll back the cap...
View ArticleEIB repeals greenhouse gas rule in New Mexico
Environmental Improvement Board A little more than a month after repealing New Mexico’s cap and trade program, the Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) on Friday (March 16) repealed the second of two...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists throw in the towel on NM’s roll back of regulations
DISMISSED: Two environmental groups withdrew their appeals of rollbacks in regulations. Saying they would be “costly and difficult,” two environmental groups on Thursday (June 13) withdrew their...
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