Climate change
New Mexico state officials mum on Clean Power Plan
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Officials aren’t talking about New Mexico’s efforts to cut carbon emissions under the federal Clean Power Plan.
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Officials aren’t talking about New Mexico’s efforts to cut carbon emissions under the federal Clean Power Plan.
New report from the Union of Concerned Scientists lays out impacts of climate change in New Mexico and offers policy suggestions on how to deal with the changes. Many of those policy changes, however, would require buy-in on climate from the Martinez administration and the New Mexico State Legislature.
In the coming months, we’ll be covering the Clean Power Plan: what might happen with or without a go-ahead from the Supreme Court, how it will affect industry in New Mexico—and what it means for New Mexicans, including those living in communities where uranium mining has brought booms, busts, and legacies of contamination.