After more than a year of collaborative community and stakeholder meetings, the new rules for NM oil and gas producers are now in effect. To meet the Governor's ambitious goal…
President Biden's administration is expected to announce a 60 day suspension of new oil and gas leasing and drilling permits for U.S. lands and waters. The move is an abrupt…
New Mexico State Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque, is planning to introduce legislation this session that would halt the issuance of new fracking permits in New Mexico. The proposed bill…
The New Mexico Environmental Department and the Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department have released the first draft of New Mexico's plan to focus on methane emissions and lower levels…
A Democrat sponsored house bill aims to ban fracking nationwide by 2025. The bill, which was sponsored by U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.), U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen.…
New Mexico's Permian Basin is one of the most prolific oil and gas producing regions in the world and is the source of NM's billion dollar increase in state revenue…
Democratic state Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez of Albuquerque has pre-filed a legislative proposal for a temporary ban on the issuance of hydraulic fracking permits until 2024. She is proposing the…
Last month New Mexican oil and gas operators completed a pilot program aimed at treating and reclaiming water used in oil and gas operations. Texan oil supply company Gradiant Energy…
Earlier this year Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham signed the Produced Water Act (HB546) into law, allowing for water used in oil and gas production to be recycled for further use.…
Wyoming-based startup, Encore Green Environmental, is pursuing an ambitious pilot project aimed at cleaning up and re-using waste water from the booming oil and gas operations of southeastern New Mexico. The…