Newsletter Credit: meunierd/Big Stock Photo Climate chilled at New Mexico legislature — again New Mexico lawmakers again rejected a greenhouse gas reduction bill while approving public funds to address oil and gas problems like abandoned wells and earthquakes.
Newsletter Credit: Getty Images/Unsplash+ In New Mexico, natural gas transporter goes to the mat over $47.8 million fine New Mexico has spent $225,000 in staff time fighting Targa over emission infractions, some that the company reported itself.
Newsletter Credit: Andrey Burmakin/Big Stock Photo Colorado's oil and gas industry is vastly underestimating methane emissions Watching from the sky, researchers find planet-warming pollutants leaking into the atmosphere are undercounted by at least two times.
Newsletter Credit: Getty Images/Unsplash+ As climate crisis upended homeowners insurance, the industry resisted regulation When an international organization sought to create guidelines on climate risk, insurance lobbying groups pushed back.
Solutions Credit: meunierd/Big Stock Photo More lost 'horizons': How New Mexico's climate plan flamed out again A small clutch of Democratic legislators once again sinks a plan to dramatically reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Newsletter Credit: Dulinskas/Big Stock Photo Pennsylvania spent big on a 'petrochemical renaissance.' It never arrived Visions of a booming hub that would bring jobs and prosperity to Appalachia faded, but the plastic “nurdles” remain.
Solutions Credit: pancaketom/Big Stock Photo New Mexico again debates greenhouse gas reductions as snow melts Lawmakers table bill to expand the use of oilfield wastewater and shoot down another that would restrict drone use around “critical” infrastructure.
