Photo of Albuquerque at duck with the text "More lost horizons: how New Mexico's climate plan flamed out again
A small clutch of Democratic legislators once again sinks a plan to dramatically reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions - by Capital & Main
The Clear Horizons & Emissions Codification Act died on the New Mexico Senate floor when seven Democratic senators joined all of the minority Republican caucus to kill it.
While several Democrats spoke in favor of the bill, also known as SB18, Not one person spoke against it, a hint that the vote was decided before the February 11 hearing began.
In a later interview, bill sponsor Mimi Stewart said Republicans didn't fight the climate bill that day because, "they didn't need to. They could jsut wait for the seven Democrats that voted with them."
The last three years were not jsut the hottest on record, they were even warmer than the historic warming trend would predict.
Some scientists are saying that if an El Niño sets up in the Pacific Ocean next year as expected, 2027 could be warmer still.
The #NewMexico Legislature ended today after a month of lawmaking
As per the last few years, things went well for the #oilandgas industry. A recurring bill to reduce #greenhousegas emissions met its demise, again
Read all about it: capitalandmain.com/more-lost-ho...
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20.02.2026 02:59
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Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y
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For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.
It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.
That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”
BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”
09.02.2026 10:31
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Sweet link:
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Check out my latest with @capitalandmain.bsky.social and NMPBS...
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Dozens of homes that were remediated after surviving L.A.’s 2025 fires have tested positive for hazardous levels of lead and asbestos. Residents are getting sick, and are worried about the long term impacts to their health.
#LAfires #News
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Whoa.
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In a Time of Extreme Peril, Burmese Journalists Tell Stories From the Shadows
American foreign policy complicates an already difficult situation for those reporting on the civil war in Myanmar.
When faced with floods of misinformation and insults from the heights of government, exiled Burmese journalists tell their US counterparts to do as they do: Don't quit, "Do your job."
Latest with @karenjcoates.bsky.social for @capitalandmain.bsky.social
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Careers and Freelance Opportunities
Investigating Money, Power and Society.
#Journalism - adjacent job alert!
@capitalandmain.bsky.social is looking for an audience and engagement person. Should be easy b/c our stories rock.
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19.12.2025 21:54
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Quote by Camilla Feibelman of Sierra Club from the story: "There's this fantasy that we'll be able to make oil and gas extraction something that's sustainable in the short or long term, and that's just not a fact."
Oh - and the exhaust from the larger of the two gas plants would blow over #Hobbs #NM just a few miles away. 5/5
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03.12.2025 00:30
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The company also argues that about a third of the energy produced at one plant should be labeled a “zero #carbon resource” because of another loophole based on reducing #methane emissions somewhere along the line – in this case in the oil and gas fields... 4/5
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... unless the PRC decides they don’t. Those two plants would provide 51% of the #energy in the package.
The SPSC argues that they should be allowed to build the plants because doing so avoids reliability and affordability issues – a specific loophole in the law... 3/5
03.12.2025 00:30
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...for eight new power plants to provide power in West Texas and a swath of southeast New Mexico, in large part to electrify oil and gas operations there. Six of the eight are renewable energy facilities, and two are gas-fired plants that could run afoul of the Energy Transition Act... 2/5
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Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant
Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”
New Mexico's 2019 Energy Transition Act requires utilities to sell 100% fossil-free electricity to customers by 2045.
A couple months ago, the Southwest Public Service Company dropped a massive application before the NM Public Regulation Commission...
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Toxic runoff from politically linked gold mine poisons Cambodian rivers, communities
*Sources have requested pseudonyms be used to protect their identity out of fear of retaliation from the government or mining companies BANGKOK, Thailand/RATANAKIRI, Cambodia — “When you touch the wat...
Latest for @mongabay.com w. @andyball.bsky.social & @vantha.bsky.social uncovers a gold mine has poisoned the O'Ta Bouk River in Virachey National Park.
Water, soil & fish from the river are contaminated, sickening the Indigenous communities downstream who depend on the river for everything.
24.11.2025 08:46
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The David vs. Goliath Story of a Ranching Family and an Oil Giant
They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t.
New story:
TL;DR - #cattle ranching family blindsided by a change in their relationship with the massive company that pulls #oil and #gas from their lands. Spills, bad roads and spoiled hunts ensue. Also a lesson in the split estate.
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07.11.2025 18:04
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The David vs. Goliath Story of a Ranching Family and an Oil Giant
They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t.
“I mean, hell, the country’s making [them] just very, very wealthy. Why would you not put a little bit back into what you tear up?”
~Richard Hodgson, rancher, Rio Arriba County
In this tough story, Redfern puts a very human face on NM landowners fighting Big Oil.
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05.11.2025 21:28
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Worth reading:
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"It should be extremely cheap and plentiful in the future."
Cue: Fusion
29.10.2025 18:59
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Leaving aside the fact that green hydrogen is exceptionally expensive to produce, making it kinda absurd to burn in a power plant (of all things), where will they get it?
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Juan González, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, lived in Pasadena for three decades before a wildfire, heart attack and ICE raids got him thinking about “self-deporting” back to Mexico.
29.10.2025 17:07
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Bat bombs to the rescue in #NewMexico
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Bill Gates Says Climate Change ‘Will Not Lead to Humanity’s Demise’
I think we should aim for something better than "not extinct"
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From #NewMexico:
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