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In New Mexico, Democrats Strike an Oil & Gas Gusher

Jan 10, 2025 | sfreporter.com | Jerry Redfern

This story was published by journalism nonprofit Capital & Main, which reports on economic, environmental and social issues in the West. capitalandmain.com Chevron gave more. So did ConocoPhillips. Exxon Mobil gave twice as much. A review by Capital & Main of New Mexico state campaign donations for the 2024 election shows the country’s biggest oil and gas production companies gave more to Democratic candidates than to the industry’s traditional Republican allies.
In New Mexico, Democrats strike an oil and gas gusher: ‘Money buys access’

Dec 4, 2024 | sourcenm.com | Jerry Redfern

Chevron gave more. So did ConocoPhillips. Exxon Mobil gave twice as much. A review by Capital & Main of New Mexico state campaign donations for the 2024 election shows the country’s biggest oil and gas production companies gave more to Democratic candidates than to the industry’s traditional Republican allies.
The EPA stalled and then a fix for New Mexico oil and gas pollution evaporated

Nov 18, 2024 | tricityrecordnm.com | Jerry Redfern

Trump election likely marks the end of a federal response to worsening air pollution in the Permian Basin. It’s a mid-September afternoon in Loving, a village of 1,400 in far southeastern New Mexico. The firm wind blowing out of Texas brings a light grit that settles in the hair and eyes.
The EPA stalled and then a fix for New Mexico oil and gas pollution evaporated

Nov 15, 2024 | sourcenm.com | Jerry Redfern

It’s a mid-September afternoon in Loving, a village of 1,400 in far southeastern New Mexico. The firm wind blowing out of Texas brings a light grit that settles in the hair and eyes. The wind carries the faint perfume of hydrocarbons — hints of plastic, hints of glue, hints of gasoline — picked up as it crosses the most productive portion of the most productive oilfield in the country, the Permian Basin.
Drill, Baby, Drill?

Nov 13, 2024 | sfreporter.com | Jerry Redfern

Marianne Kah spent 25 years as chief economist at ConocoPhillips, where she developed market forecasts and led scenario planning at the multinational giant. Today she is an adjunct senior research scholar and advisory board member at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and calls Santa Fe, New Mexico, home. In a recent discussion with Capital & Main, Kah took a 30,000-foot view of the fossil fuel landscape with a focus on New Mexico, the nation’s No. 2 oil-producing state.
Drill, baby, drill? Former big oil exec says that’s exactly what the industry doesn’t need.

Oct 31, 2024 | sourcenm.com | Jerry Redfern

by Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main, Source New Mexico October 31, 2024 Marianne Kah spent 25 years as chief economist at ConocoPhillips, where she developed market forecasts and led scenario planning at the multinational giant. Today she is an adjunct senior research scholar and advisory board member at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, and calls Santa Fe, New Mexico, home.
As New Mexico shakes, state cancels dozens of planned wastewater injection sites

Sep 12, 2024 | sourcenm.com | Jerry Redfern

Guzzler.’ ‘Bottomless Pit.’ ‘Deep Thirst.’ ‘Big Swig.’More like: ‘No Dice.’The thirsty well names reflected the hopes of companies to fill them with oilfield wastewater, a problematic and toxic byproduct of the oil trade. But a series of earthquakes in the Permian Basin of New Mexico has prompted the state’s Oil Conservation Division to cancel these four and 71 other waste injection wells planned along the state’s southern border with Texas.
In this tiny New Mexico town, the air quality is worse than in downtown L.A.

Aug 26, 2024 | nmpoliticalreport.com | Jerry Redfern

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main A group of air quality scientists with decades of experience have found some of the worst air pollution they’ve encountered in years in the tiny town of Loving, New Mexico, where the ozone level is often worse than it is in downtown Los Angeles.
In This Tiny New Mexico Town, the Air Quality Is Worse Than in Downtown L.A.

Aug 23, 2024 | sourcenm.com | Jerry Redfern

A group of air quality scientists with decades of experience have found some of the worst air pollution they’ve encountered in years in the tiny town of Loving, New Mexico, where the ozone level is often worse than it is in downtown Los Angeles.
New Mexico has some of the nation’s toughest oil and gas regulations. Enforcing them is another matter.

Jul 18, 2024 | nmpoliticalreport.com | Jerry Redfern

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & MainBig, transformative bills involving public safety and oil and gas regulation were up for debate during New Mexico’s legislative session at the start of the year. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham promoted both initiatives, and both in the Democratic-led Legislature. Lujan Grisham has now called a controversial special legislative session starting Thursday to get more public safety laws passed in the face of rising violent crime and a booming homelessness problem.