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| The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) today unveiled their final design for a regional cap and trade program to spur reductions in pollution that causes global warming. | |
| With Western governors poised to announce details of a program to cap global warming emissions in seven western states, environmental organizations are urging officials to make sure polluters pay for pollution permits, rather than receive what amounts to billions of dollars in trade-able assets for free. | |
| The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) today unveiled their proposed design for a regional cap and trade program to spur reductions in carbon emissions that cause global warming. The regional agreement is a significant advancement for establishing science-based action on global warming. Unfortunately, the proposed design contains flawed elements that must be resolved in order to help families with rising energy costs and to drive investments in clean technologies. | |
| Statement of Lauren Ketcham Environment New Mexico Advocate On Vice President Al Gore's Energy Challenge | |
| Environment New Mexico strongly criticized the Bush EPA’s announcement today that it will further delay action in response to last year’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling requiring the EPA to reconsider its 2003 decision not to regulate global warming emissions under the Clean Air Act. | |
| Today thirteen environmental, public health and consumer organizations moved to join as intervener-defendants in federal court to defend New Mexico’s Clean Car standards. | |
| Environment New Mexico released a new report today, Global Warming Solutions that Work, which details more than 20 examples of cutting-edge policies and practices that communities, states and countries are using to reduce global warming pollution. New Mexico officials are currently working toward strict global warming limits through the Western Climate Initiative which will require these types of actions in an effort to slash emissions. | |
| Environment New Mexico expressed profound disappointment today after Senator Domenici voted against proceeding with the Climate Security Act (S. 3036), the most comprehensive global warming legislation ever considered by the full Senate. Senator Bingaman voted to advance the legislation. By a vote of 48-36, the Senate fell short of the 60-vote threshold needed to move forward with the bill, causing consideration of the bill to end without any substantive votes on the measure. An additional six senators, who missed the vote, submitted statements indicating that they would have voted to move forward had they been present. | |
| Statement of Lauren Ketcham, Environment New Mexico Advocate, on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committees Approval of the Global Warming Pollution from Vehicles Act of 2008 (S.2555) | |
| The Albuquerque Planning Department will present the Great Streets Facilities Draft Plan to the Environmental Planning Commission, located at 600 2nd St NW, on Thursday May 8. | |
| Last night, the Albuquerque City Council rejected a bill that would have provided needed guidelines and limitations on tax increment financing in Albuquerque. | |
| Press Advisory and Statement by Environment New Mexico Advocate, Lauren Ketcham At tonight’s City Council meeting, Councilors will consider legislation sponsored by Councilors Cadigan, Benton and Garduno that would limit the use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) within Albuquerque. | |
| The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally denied California’s request for a Clean Air Act waiver of preemption today, blocking the efforts of thirteen states, including New Mexico, that seek to require automakers to cut pollution from automobile tailpipes. | |
| Today New Mexico has joined 15 other states in petitioning to intervene in support of California’s petition for judicial review of a recent U.S. EPA decision to block states from regulating global warming pollution from motor vehicles. The lawsuit comes as a reaction to U.S. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson’s December 19 denial of California’s waiver, some two years after California asked U.S. EPA for authorization to implement landmark global warming rules limiting global warming gases from automobiles. | |
| On Wednesday December 19th, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson announced that he was denying a waiver for California allowed under the Clean Air Act for that state, and by extension all states including New Mexico, to tackle one of the largest and fastest growing sources of greenhouse gas emissions – cars and trucks. On November 27, New Mexico became the thirteenth state to adopt California’s Clean Cars Program, which would cut global warming emissions by 30 percent by 2016. | |
| Last month’s adoption of the Clean Cars Program by the Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) and the Albuquerque-Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board (AQCB) was a significant environmental and global warming victory for public health, consumer pocketbooks and New Mexico’s environment. | |
| Scientists have said for years that global warming was “loading the dice†when it comes to increasing the frequency of severe storms, and a new Environment New Mexico Research & Policy Center report makes it clear that New Mexico is already experiencing extreme downpours much more frequently. Specifically, the new report found that storms with heavy rainfall are now 44% percent more frequent in the New Mexico than they were 60 years ago. | |
| After two days of joint hearings, the Albuquerque-Bernalillo Air Quality Control Board (AQCB) and Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) voted to adopt Clean Car standards to reduce air pollution and global warming emissions from new cars, trucks and SUVs beginning in Model Year 2011. | |
| A new report by Environment New Mexico finds that the automobile fuel economy provision in the Senate energy bill would save New Mexico consumers $183 million dollars at the pump in 2020, reduce oil consumption by 8,234 thousand barrels per day and would be the equivalent of taking 99,606 cars off the road. | |
| Today the state of New Mexico joined 13 other states in suing the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) to compel the agency to act on the states’ petition to implement their own, more protective standards for automobile pollution. | |
| Joined by Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez, Environment New Mexico Research & Policy Center released a report outlining the economic benefits of a Mayor-backed Clean Cars Program that would reduce air pollution and global warming emissions from new vehicles sold in the state. The report found that New Mexicans could stand to save $623 million annually at the gas pump as a result of the program, which would help to reduce New Mexico’s dependence on oil while keeping more money in the local economy and creating jobs. | |
| Yesterday, the Governors of thirteen states, including New Mexico’s Governor Richardson, released an open letter to the CEOs of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda and Nissan, asserting their commitment to forge ahead with state Clean Car programs and urging the auto manufacturers to withdraw their legal challenges of the program. | |
| The death toll from extreme heat will increase significantly by mid-century as global warming drives up summertime temperatures, according to a new report released by Environment New Mexico and conducted by Applied Climatologists, Inc. experts Dr. Laurence Kalkstein of the University of Miami and Dr. Scott Greene of the University of Oklahoma. | |
| The average temperature in Albuquerque was 1.4°F above average in 2006, according to a new report released today by Environment New Mexico Research & Policy Center, Feeling the Heat: Global Warming and Rising Temperatures in the United States. The group said this warmer-than-normal weather is indicative of what New Mexico can expect with continued global warming. | |
| The New Mexico Environment Department will be holding a series of public meetings on the proposed Clean Cars standards on June 25 in Las Cruces and June 26 in Santa Fe. | |
| New Mexico Cabinet Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department testified on May 30 in Sacramento, California before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding Clean Car standards that the state of New Mexico is considering. | |
| Tailpipe standards already in place in 12 other states would reduce global warming emissions by nearly 400 million metric tons by 2020 – a reduction level equivalent to taking 74 million of today’s cars off the road for an entire year, according to a new report released today by the Environment New Mexico Research & Policy Center. The report comes as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) prepares to hold a public hearing on whether to give states the green light to reduce global warming pollution from cars and SUVs. | |
| Despite state and local commitments to address global warming, the transportation sector continues to pose a serious challenge for New Mexico as the state moves to decrease its global warming emissions. Advanced-technology vehicles – those that use cleaner, more efficient designs or new technological advances to improve performance – will reduce New Mexico’s contribution to global warming and decrease air pollution. | |
| The pollution reductions needed to stave off the worst effects of global warming can be achieved—if governments act now, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). | |
| Global warming pollution in New Mexico increased by 11% between 1990 and 2004, according to The Carbon Boom, a new analysis of state fossil fuel consumption data released today by Environment New Mexico Research and Policy Center. This is the first time that 2004 state-by-state data on carbon dioxide emissions have been released. | |
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