An updated Bureau of Land Management report offers a mixed outlook for oil and gas production in the state’s second largest drilling basin.
Western Environmental Law Center attorney discusses New Mexico, the president's energy emergency and how we can emerge from the “ruins.”
Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up.
A warming climate — fueled in part by the state’s oil and gas production — has parched rivers and turned forests to tinder.
Pipeline company touts helping the nation; letter writing campaign raises questions. Critic says, “Just pipe the natural gas.”
Sixty days and 1,182 bills later, state legislators take a pass on oil and gas reforms.
Operators lost enough natural gas to power 12,000 homes for a year, even as legislators debated and abandoned most new reforms.
With little time, nearly 1,200 bills and disappearing federal partners, legislators slow-roll new oil and gas regulations.
Legislators juggle hundreds of bills. Some would shape the industry that generates money, pollution and climate disasters.
Powerful senator threatens Environment Department with funding cuts, its secretary with investigation.
The state’s challenge: How to police an industry that generates a third of the state budget and a third of its greenhouse emissions.
Nationally, Big Oil overwhelmingly supports Republicans; in New Mexico it’s a different story.
Trump election likely marks the end of a federal response to worsening air pollution in the Permian Basin.
Former ConocoPhillips economist Marianne Kah on the election: Whether it's Harris or Trump, the outcome likely won't affect oil production.
Study uncovers thousands of undocumented quakes, underscoring the link between injection sites and seismic activity.
The data is clear: The village of Loving in the Permian Basin has been hit hard by waves of pollutants from Big Oil, yet the EPA...
With the EPA hamstrung by the Supreme Court and shaky state funding, New Mexico could face a future with reduced protections.
Production, distribution, power generation, carbon capture all in the works: Questions, concerns, confusion abound.
Despite efforts to rein in emissions, state is unlikely to meet greenhouse gas reduction goals, group says.
An oil and gas firm planned to convert a New Mexico water well into a disposal site for toxic wastewater. A familiar face stood in its...