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Utility Asks New Mexico for ‘Zero Emission’ Status for Gas-Fired Power Plant

Aerial view of a landscape with numerous oil well pads, intersecting roads, and sparse vegetation.

Plan puts costs of new solar farms on New Mexicans and extends lives of coal-fired plants. Critics call it “profound greenwashing.” by Jerry Redfern, Capital and Main This story was originally published at Capital and Main, a NMPBS partner. The Southwestern Public Service Company has asked the state of New Mexico to grant exceptions to…

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New Mexico’s Billion-Dollar Oilfield Orphans

A person stands atop a large mound of earth, surrounded by trenches and rocky soil under a cloudy sky; orange safety netting is visible in the background.

A recent report says abandoned oil infrastructure could cost the state up to $1.6 billion in coming years. This is how. by Jerry Redfern, Capital and Main This story was originally published at Capital and Main, a NMPBS partner. Dave Fosdeck crested a dirt berm on the Hogback, a ridge of hills west of Farmington,…

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