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A small clutch of Democratic legislators once again sinks a plan to dramatically reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.

An annual bipartisan poll addressing conservation issues across the American West released its findings on Wednesday – highlighting serious concerns among voters across both sides of the political aisle.

New Mexico taxpayers will get less money for education, health care, infrastructure and other priorities from the recent sale of oil and gas leases on federal lands thanks to President Donald Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act."

As the legislative session opens, lawmakers again will weigh a pledge to reduce emissions. Last year, two Democrats joined the GOP to sink it.

Despite significant opposition, the Environmental Protection Agency recently announced it would delay Biden-era methane compliance deadlines for at least 18 months.

A power plant plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends the lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.”

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.

The administration of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham appears to have pressured members of the state Water Quality Control Commission to consider a petition reversing a rule the commission passed unanimously in May that banned fossil fuel wastewater from being used outside oilfield work and testing.

A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is how.

President Trump’s Department of the Interior wants to rescind the "Public Lands Rule" – saying it stands in the way of “legitimate” uses of land, including mining, grazing, energy development, and recreation.