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| 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. | |
| A new analysis of government data released today by the New Mexico Public Interest Research Group (NMPIRG) and the National Environmental Trust (NET) found for the first time that the West’s major river basins are getting warmer, at exactly the time of year water needs to be stored as snow to meet the region’s water needs. | |
| 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. | |
| 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 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. | |
| This Thursday, a letter signed by numerous concerned Senators, including New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, will be delivered to President Bush, calling for reductions in global warming pollution within 10 years. | |
| 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). | |
| 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. | |
| Approximately 20-30 percent of plant and animal species are at increasing risk of extinction if the global average temperature increases by another 2.2 to 4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a major consensus report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC is a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| Everyone today is talking about global warming—around the kitchen table, in high school classrooms, and the pages of Time magazine. | |
| In a landmark decision in one of the most important environmental cases ever heard by the Supreme Court (Mass v. EPA), the Court ruled today that the Clean Air Act gives the U.S. EPA the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants from cars. | |
| 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. | |
| Statement of Washington DC Office Director, Anna Aurilio | |
| Important legislation was introduced today in Washington D.C. to help the nation fight global warming. The Safe Climate Act would limit global warming pollution to levels that current science says are needed to prevent the worst effects of global warming. The bill was introduced by a bipartisan group of nearly 125 members led by Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA), the chair of the House Oversight Committee and a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. | |
| Automotive engineers at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today unveiled a minivan design that shows automakers can build affordable vehicles with existing technology that would meet or exceed a global warming pollution standard proposed in New Mexico. Automakers have filed lawsuits in three other states challenging similar standards. | |
| The world’s scientists are more than 90% certain that human activity – primarily burning fossil fuels to power cars, power plants, and factories – is responsible for most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-20th century, according to a consensus report released early this morning by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a United Nations body charged with assessing the scientific record on global warming. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| The U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments today in a landmark global warming case. The case will decide whether the Clean Air Act authorizes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the pollution that causes global warming. | |
| 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. | |
| Lacking national leadership, New Mexico is taking great strides as a clean energy state and a leader on solutions to global warming. Yesterday, Governor Richardson announced a bold energy agenda focused on energy efficiency and renewable energy. Meanwhile, in Albuquerque, the Governor’s Climate Change Advisory Group finalized its recommendation of key solutions aimed at reducing the state’s contribution to global warming. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
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