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New Mexico Bonding Reform - Western Environmental Law Center

💸 Oil corporations walk away. New Mexicans are stuck with the bill. The average cost to plug a well is $163,000. Some corporations only post $105 in bonds.

See what abandoned wells really mean for our communities:
👉 westernlaw.org/keepnmenchan...

New Mexico Bonding Reform - Western Environmental Law Center

🚨 What’s an abandoned well?

It’s an oil or gas well that’s been abandoned by the company that drilled it — and now leaks methane, threatens our water, and puts the public at risk.

Learn what they are and why it matters: westernlaw.org/keepnmenchan...

Thank Gov. Lujan Grisham and AG Torrez for fighting for Clean Cars and Trucks! Send your message today!

Today, @RioGrandeSierra is thanking @GovMLG & @TorrezforNM for continuing to fight for Clean Cars and Trucks and healthier air for New Mexicans to breathe.
It’s time to charge forward on life-saving clean transportation policies, not back down.

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Thank you Senator Ben Ray Luján for your efforts to save the Methane Emissions Reduction Program and protect New Mexican from this toxic air pollution that costs our state tax dollars thru the methane polluter fee. #CutMethane

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Advocates: Mount Cristo Rey wall will worsen migrant deaths, erosion, habitat loss • Source New Mexico A U.S. Customs and Border Protection proposal for a wall on Mt. Cristo Rey in Sunland Park threatens the area, local conservation groups say.

“It is pretty disheartening to see,” Antoinette Reyes told Source NM. “By blocking off that section, which is already steep and difficult terrain as is, it forces people to go into more dangerous portions of the border to cross.”

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Time & time again, companies make empty promises to #CutMethane. Instead of holding them accountable to meet reasonable, industry-set targets, the Senate just gave them a get out of jail free card by delaying the methane polluter fee by 10 years.

Time & time again, companies make empty promises to #CutMethane. Instead of holding them accountable to meet reasonable, industry-set targets, the Senate just gave them a get out of jail free card by delaying the methane polluter fee by 10 years.

Yes! People power for the win!

The Senate parliamentarian has ruled Lee’s latest lands-selloff bill in order :(
We can still stop it. At least one R senator has requested an amendment vote to strip it.
— Text “not for sale” to 69866 or go to sc.org/NotForSale or call (855) 980-5638
— Share & tag your senators!
@schiff.senate.gov

Provisions Subject to a 60-Vote Byrd Rule Point of Order Energy and Natural Resources NEPA compliance. These provisions deem offshore oil and gas projects as automatically compliant with the National Environmental Policy Act, nullifying these projects' environmental review processes. (Subsection 102(b)(4) and Subsection 102(b)(5)) Offshore oil and gas leasing. This subsection requires leases to be issued to successful bidders within 90 days after the lease sale. (Subsection 102(b)(6)) Ambler Road. This section requires the Secretary of the Interior to permit construction of Ambler Road, a controversial mining road in Alaska. (Section 201) Mandatory public land sales. This section mandates the unprecedented sale of millions of acres of public land, including from both Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service lands. (Section 301)

Renewable energy fees. This subsection removes the Secretary of the Interior's discretion to reduce fees for solar and wind projects on Bureau of Land Management land. (Subsection 303(e)) Geothermal leasing and royalties. These sections require the Secretary of the Interior to hold yearly geothermal lease sales and purport to change how geothermal royalties are calculated. (Section 305 and Section 306) Natural gas exports and imports. This section creates a pay-to-play regime for natural gas exports, allowing natural gas exporters to pay a fee to have their project be deemed "in the public interest," which is a requirement for approval. (Section 401)

HUGE: Senate Parliamentarian says that Mike Lee's public land sell-off violates the Byrd rule, requires 60 votes in the Senate. A bunch of other terrible anti-environment provisions do too.

This isn't over, but this is a huge win.

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California Will Not Waver in Defending Itself from Federal Overreach: Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration for Attack on California’s Clean Vehicles Program LOS ANGELES – California Attorney General Rob Bonta, California Governor Gavin Newsom, and the California Air Resources Board today led a coalition of 10 attorneys general in filing a lawsuit against ...

Thx AG Raul Torrez ‪@nmdoj.bsky.social for joining ten other AGs to sue the Trump Administration for its illegal attacks on life-saving clean air @govmlg.bsky.social standards. We need to do everything we can to cut deadly tailpipe pollution in our neighborhoods oag.ca.gov/news/press-r...

80+ Groups Demand BLM Halt Trump-Era Public Lands Giveaway Coalition of Frontline, Tribal, Scientific, and Local Leaders Oppose January 2026 Oil and Gas Lease Sale in New Mexico and Oklahoma

Since 2015, groups have protested quarterly lease sales and delivered more than 2 million public comments to the Bureau of Land Management calling for an end to new oil and and gas leasing on public lands in New Mexico.
#NotForSale #handsoff

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Every day we delay strong federal methane standards, is another day that the oil and gas industry’s pollution is poisoning the air that people breathe.

Our leaders in #NewMexico must continue to maintain, enforce, and update our strong safeguards against methane pollution.

#CutMethane

Heinrich pushes Interior for list of national parks that could be sent to states under Trump plan • Source New Mexico Burgum testified that the agency is not seeking to get rid of any of the nation’s 64 “crown jewels", but that some of more than 400 other NPS sites could be managed by state or local authorities

Thank you, Senator Heinrich, for calling out the administration's reckless proposal to transfer the management of national parks to state and local authorities with no plan to provide additional resources for states to accomplish conservation objectives.  shorturl.at/tRejc
#DefendPublicLands

U.S. Climate Alliance Governors Launch Affordable Clean Cars Coalition to Expand Americans’ Access to Newer and Cleaner Vehicles | U.S. Climate Alliance Today, the U.S. Climate Alliance announced the launch of the Affordable Clean Cars Coalition by 11 of its member governors to sustain America’s transition to cleaner and more affordable cars, support ...

Thank you Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham for joining 10 other governors in launching the Affordable Clean Cars Coalition to expand Americans’ access to newer and cleaner vehicles!!

Read More: usclimatealliance.org/press-releas...

Affordable Clean Car Coalition forms in response to U.S. Senate vote Governors of states that have implemented clean vehicle programs, such as New Mexico’s Advanced Clean Cars rule, are banding together following a U.S. Senate vote this week. The Senate voted 51-44 …

Thx! @govmlg.bsky.social for supporting New Mexican's right to clean air and affordable transportation through @usclimate.bsky.social and the new Affordable Clean Cars Coalition. We will stand with our state elected leadership to protect our air, our climate and our communities!

After you flooded their offices with calls and emails, House Republicans ditched a provision in Trump's dirty and dangerous budget bill that would have sold off hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah to help pay for billionaire tax breaks.

Photo of a camping tent in a scenic public area near where public lands would have been sold under a congressional budget amendment. Credit: Bekah Ashely

🚨Update 🚨
After thousands of your calls & emails to Congress, a midnight budget amendment to sell off hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in NV and UT is DEAD.

They also removed bad land-management provisions and Arctic oil and gas language. Thank you for taking action. DON’T STOP.

Heinrich Statement Blasting Senate Republicans’ Plans to Defy the Senate Parliamentarian & Force a Vote to Overturn California’s Clean Energy Air Act Waivers | U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich of New Mexi... WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, released the following...

Thank you @heinrich.senate.gov for standing up for clean air, for clean cars and trucks, and for the expert, technical rulemaking at the U.S. EPA, that we used to have. Polluters are driving the car now.

House Republicans waited until the middle of the night to pass a measure that gives away millions of acres of public lands to private developers and oil and gas, mining, and logging corporations.

@rephuffman.bsky.social and
@naturalresources.bsky.social are fighting back against Republicans’ plans to give handouts to polluters and billionaires, strip community protections, and put our economy, our climate and our future at risk.

Quotes from former NPS, BLM & USFS employees fired by Trump (a 🧵)

“Public safety is on the line. The Forest Service is incapacitated. Families are being destroyed, many of us live in communities where the cost of living is through the roof, & people put their lives on the line for this community.”

We have a moral imperative to address climate change, which will have enormous impacts on the future we leave behind for our kids and beyond.

Today, at the @naturalresources.bsky.social hearing, I spoke out on the GOP's giveaway to Big Oil, the most sweeping attack on our environment in history.

Everything about this Reconciliation bill in Natural Resources is a total lie. It’s bad for our:

- Economy
- Environment
- Communities

That’s why we’re prepared to sit here all day and fight it every step of the way.

YouTube video by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez Republicans Sacrifice Public Lands and Communities for Billionaire Tax Breaks

Today, Republicans are holding a yard sale for America’s backyard.

They're jamming through some of the nastiest environmental laws ever seen to give tax cuts to billionaires.

Why? Because they want to raise a billion dollars to pay for those tax cuts. youtube.com/shorts/UbLWw...

Congress’ Tax Bill Is Selling Out America’s Public Lands and Waters The tax bill would now include the largest sellout of public lands by Congress in modern U.S. history.

Congressional Republicans are trying to sell out and sell off public lands to the highest bidder to fund insider tax breaks while simultaneously enriching Big Oil and other corporate insiders. www.americanprogress.org/article/cong...

Poll: Westerners oppose public-land giveaways to oil and gas As Congress prepares to slide fossil-fuel giveaways into the next budget bill, a new eight-state poll shows Westerners oppose giving oil and gas companies free-rein over public lands.

As Congress prepares to include fossil-fuel giveaways in the next budget bill, a new eight-state poll, including New Mexico, shows Westerners oppose giving oil and gas companies free rein over public lands.
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The Supreme Court is about to let religion ruin public education Two recent cases suggest that the era of secular schools is coming to an end.

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

Attacking Democrat's efforts to address our climate crisis is a major part of the reasons why we ended up having to try to survive through Trump 2.0 so I suggest that people should abandon that bad habit.