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Does New Mexico have the money to hold oil and gas accountable?

Concerns lingered that oversight of oil and gas industry was inadequately funded in New Mexico, despite an almost $9.6 billion budget approved by lawmakers during this year’s legislative session that concluded March 18.

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New Mexico's oil, gas air pollution is visible from space, study says

A cloud of methane about 2 miles long was discovered southeast of Carlsbad by NASA, amid the Permian Basin oilfields.
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Oil and gas communities in New Mexico call for more pollution controls

Kayley Shoup of Carlsbad said the worst of fossil fuel’s air pollution befell her community alongside one of the world’s busiest oilfields in the world in New Mexico’s southeast Permian Basin region.

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