After industry lobbyists halted the oil and gas well safe-distance law, their well-funded referendum could sway voters with misinformation.
Missed cues grow Native distrust around a New Mexico research project on oil well wastewater.
In December, legislators killed a controversial abatement program known as Chapter 313, but its effects will last decades.
Lawmakers will have to resist inertia and oil and gas influence as the climate crisis worsens.
Questions over whether cold weather in New Mexico an ’emergency.’
Oil companies may end up relying on environmentally questionable crop-based fuels.
Proposed legislation would dramatically change New Mexico’s principal oil and gas law.
New Mexico’s legislative session, funded by oil and gas, promises fireworks.
Process will set financial assurance plan for all producers’ wells.
State regulators could order Boulder County to sell its gas rights without consent.
Order was quietly signed on the same day that residents celebrated the energy company’s plea deal on charges of environmental crimes.
Long-suffering residents of Dimock, Pennsylvania, feel cautiously hopeful after Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro announces plea deal with natural gas company.
Petition circulators have reportedly claimed that a ballot measure would ban new oil and gas wells near homes. In fact, it would do the opposite.
Public prosecution ‘a great model’ for future suits against polluters.
Shapiro and Fetterman defeat pro-drilling candidates, but their policies on key issues remain uncertain.
Some races with moderate Democrats backed by oil money running against progressives remain too close to call.
The state’s majority Democrat Legislature has yet to fully fund enforcement of recently strengthened regulations.
Pennsylvania’s far-right gubernatorial candidate has vowed to expand oil and gas production and roll back regulations.
As the state’s top prosecutor, gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro promised Dimock residents justice for years of water pollution. Resolution has yet to come.
Republicans are seen as friends of oil and gas, but donations to powerful Democrats say they are, too.