Jerry Redfern

New Mexico

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In Democratic New Mexico, Oil and Gas Legislation Doesn’t Pass

2 weeks ago | capitalandmain.com | Jerry Redfern

And poof — it’s gone. New Mexico’s biannual, 60-day lawmaking session ended after two breakneck final weeks with the Democratic-majority, volunteer legislators working right up to the noon deadline. In the end, it was another legislative session that confirmed business as usual for the state’s oil and gas industry.
Snow Melts, Drought Builds and New Mexico Legislators Spike New Oil Regulations

1 month ago | capitalandmain.com | Jerry Redfern

Between the start of the year and March 7, oil and gas producers reported more than 7,125 spills across the state — about 111 a day on average. Those spills include oil, produced water, other chemicals and natural gas, the last constituting the overwhelming majority of cases. In fact, companies lost as much natural gas through venting and flaring in that period as is used in more than 12,000 homes and small businesses in New Mexico for a year.
New Mexico Legislative Halftime Report: Sluggishness and Chaos

1 month ago | newsfromthestates.com | Jerry Redfern

Tick tock, tick tock…Feb. 20 was halftime in this year’s two-month edition of the New Mexico Legislature and the deadline for filing proposed legislation. Its 111 members have now filed 1,182 bills for debate; about 20 of those deal with regulating some aspect of the oil and gas industry.
In New Mexico’s Fast Legislative Session, Oil and Gas Fans Tap the Brakes

2 months ago | capitalandmain.com | Jerry Redfern

“You may clap now.”With that, Rep. Javier Martínez, the speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives, ushered Jan. 28, New Mexico Oil and Gas Day, into the record books. The measure passed in a unanimous consent vote of all of the state’s representatives — a process that didn’t allow for anyone to vote against it. The preceding 20 minutes of discussion were a Republican-led chorus of “Drill, baby, drill!” and pro-industry rhetoric.
New Mexico Fights Over Oil and Gas Enforcement Funding

2 months ago | capitalandmain.com | Jerry Redfern

New Mexico legislators have so far proposed 19 bills this session that could directly — and at times dramatically — change how the oil and gas industry operates in the state. If passed, most would be carried out by one of two state agencies, both facing tight funding exacerbated by years of explosive growth in the oil and gas sector. And the head of the state’s Legislative Finance Committee has threatened to cut funding to one of the agencies and threatened its secretary with legal action.
Trump vows to cut oil and gas rules as New Mexico looks to fight back

2 months ago | sourcenm.com | Jerry Redfern

by Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main, Source New Mexico February 5, 2025 New Mexico faces a seminal moment in its relationship with the oil and gas industry as President Donald Trump vows to slash federal regulation, enforcement and funding. That leaves the state to grapple with a fraught and expensive question: Will New Mexico pick up the slack in policing an industry that generates more than a third of the state budget, but also more than a third of its climate-warming pollution?
In New Mexico, Democrats Strike an Oil and Gas Gusher: ‘Money Buys Access’

Dec 3, 2024 | capitalandmain.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 14, 2024 | capitalandmain.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? Former Big Oil Exec Says That's Exactly What the Industry Doesn't Need.

Oct 28, 2024 | capitalandmain.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.
As New Mexico Shakes, State Cancels Dozens of Planned Wastewater Injection Sites

Sep 10, 2024 | capitalandmain.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.