{"id":48639,"date":"2026-02-18T14:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/?p=48639"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:32:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T21:32:24","slug":"more-lost-horizons-how-new-mexicos-climate-plan-flamed-out-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newmexicopbs.org\/productions\/newmexicoinfocus\/more-lost-horizons-how-new-mexicos-climate-plan-flamed-out-again\/","title":{"rendered":"More Lost \u2018Horizons\u2019: How New Mexico\u2019s Climate Plan Flamed Out Again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>A small clutch of Democratic legislators once again sinks a plan to dramatically reduce the state\u2019s greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>by Jerry Redfern, Capital and Main<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-background\" style=\"background-color:#8080801f\"><em><strong>This <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/more-lost-horizons-how-new-mexicos-climate-plan-flamed-out-again\">story<\/a> was originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/\">Capital and Main<\/a>, a NMPBS partner.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Clear Horizons Bill Dies in Senate\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2HIarvIvFEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Clear Horizons<\/strong> &amp; Emissions Codification Act died on the New Mexico Senate floor when seven Democratic senators joined all of the minority Republican caucus to kill it. While several Democrats spoke in favor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/Legislation\/Legislation?Chamber=S&amp;LegType=B&amp;LegNo=18&amp;year=26\">the bill<\/a>, also known as SB18, not one person spoke against it \u2014 a hint that the vote was decided before the Feb. 11 hearing began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Sen. William Sharer (R-San Juan), the minority floor leader, voted, you could hear the sing-song in his \u201cNo!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the vote tally was read \u2014 19-23 \u2014 bill sponsor Sen. Mimi Stewart (D-Bernalillo) quietly said, \u201cThank you to the body for the discussion,\u201d though there had been no real discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a later interview, Stewart said Republicans didn\u2019t fight the bill that day because \u201cthey didn\u2019t need to. They could just wait for the seven Democrats that voted with them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was plenty to discuss. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham exhorted the Legislature to \u201cput it in law! Put it in law! Put it in law!\u201d during her state of the state address that kicked off the ongoing legislative session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And the bill \u2014 an attempt to finally codify and expand Lujan Grisham\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/EO_2019-003.pdf\">third executive order<\/a> after taking office in 2019 \u2014 called for a series of gradual reductions in the state\u2019s total greenhouse gas emissions over the next 24 years, leading to a return to 2005 emission levels or lower by 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The effort to reduce the climate altering emissions was often referred to as a \u201c100% reduction by 2050,\u201d which apparently confused some. Senate Republicans sent out a crowing <a href=\"https:\/\/nmsenategop.com\/2026\/02\/11\/senate-republicans-lead-charge-to-kill-catastrophic-clear-horizons-bill-sb-18\/\">press release<\/a> right after the vote, with unflattering photos of the bill\u2019s sponsors and the incorrect claim that the bill was a \u201c\u2018zero emissions\u2019 environmental mandate by the year 2050.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Actually, the bill had explicit carve-outs excluding sources emitting less than 10,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases annually, like small businesses and agricultural interests. It also contained a provision proposed by oil and gas companies to allow large polluters \u2014 like oil and gas companies \u2014 to offset their emissions elsewhere in the state, rather than requiring reductions at their point of production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Opponents did speak up in earlier hearings on the bill. Arguments were directed at unspecified costs to a broad spectrum of people, from ranchers to farmers to electric companies. There were claims that the bill would hurt the state\u2019s oil and gas industry, with catastrophic economic effects for New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the biggest producers in New Mexico already have greenhouse gas reduction goals that equal or better what was in the Clear Horizons Act. Chevron has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chevron.com\/investors\/esg\/greenhouse-gas-ghg-emissions-management#:~:text=We%20aspire%20to%20achieve%20net%20zero%20upstream%20production%20Scope%201%20and%202%20greenhouse%20gas%20emissions\">committed<\/a> to net-zero operational emissions by 2050. Oxy has plans to do so before 2040, \u201cwith an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxy.com\/sustainability\/planet\/#:~:text=with%20an%20ambition%20to%20do%20so%20before%202035\">ambition<\/a> to do so before 2035.\u201d ExxonMobil <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.exxonmobil.com\/news\/viewpoints\/why-exxonmobils-permian-net-zero-plan-by-2030-matters\">committed<\/a> to the same in the Permian Basin by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Producers have extra impetus to reach these goals from the European Union, a major American market that has implemented stringent reporting requirements on fossil fuel imports leading to steep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in the production and supply chains. The group began phasing in <a href=\"https:\/\/energy.ec.europa.eu\/topics\/carbon-management-and-fossil-fuels\/methane-emissions_en#:~:text=The%20regulation%20phases%2Din%20a%20number%20of%20requirements%20for%20importers%20over%20time\">reduction goals<\/a> last year, beginning with information on the origins, monitoring, loss reductions and system repairs for all oil, gas and coal imported into the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the bill\u2019s second hearing on Feb. 7, Matthew Gonzales spoke as a vice president with the Consumer Energy Alliance. The group describes itself as an advocate for \u201caffordable, reliable, and cleaner energy solutions\u201d that \u201cbenefit everyday Americans\u201d and is backed by a large swath of businesses, chambers of commerce and <a href=\"https:\/\/consumerenergyalliance.org\/about\/our-members\/#:~:text=ENERGY%20PROVIDERS%20%26%20SUPPLIERS%3A\">fossil fuel and power companies<\/a>. At the hearing, he said SB18 \u201cis a disaster for rural and tribal New Mexico.\u201d The alliance ran the same anti-SB18 ad on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ads\/library\/?id=1338442874708069\">Facebook and Instagram<\/a> 10 times over the three days before the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gonzales is also a registered lobbyist with the political consulting firm HBW Resources of Houston and Washington, D.C., and he has been at the center of a controversial plan to build a <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/many-on-navajo-nation-blindsided-by-hydrogen-pipeline-change\">new pipeline<\/a> across the Navajo Nation. First planned for hydrogen, it is now proposed to carry natural gas from Farmington, New Mexico, into Arizona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>HBW Resources also manages <a href=\"https:\/\/westernnaturalgas.org\/\">Western States and Tribal Nations<\/a>, a trade group of natural gas producers and affiliated industries pushing for increased gas production and exports from the intermountain west. The group\u2019s chairman, Jason Sandel, is a friend of Gov. Lujan Grisham and the president of Aztec Well Servicing in Farmington. At the same bill hearing, he said he was worried about his employees. \u201cWhen you impact me, you impact the unaffordability crisis in our society,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Michael D\u2019Antonio, a lobbyist for Xcel Energy, an electric utility that powers part of the southeast corner of the state, said, \u201cPlease vote no to protect our most vulnerable families.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Xcel Energy subsidiary the Southwestern Public Service Company has <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/utility-asks-new-mexico-for-zero-emission-status-for-gas-fired-power-plant\">a case<\/a> before the Public Regulation Commission of New Mexico to build several new electric plants, including a pair of large gas-fired plants, in large part to power oil and gas operations in the Permian Basin, the most productive oil field in the nation. The larger of the two would be upwind and just over the Texas border a few miles from downtown Hobbs, New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart has a different target for her anger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI point my finger at [the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association] for trying to confuse legislators, for giving them the wrong information and for trying as hard as they can to kill this bill,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s not fair what they do, I believe, by lying so much about the impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Mexico Oil and Gas Association is the state\u2019s biggest, most influential and best-known oil industry trade group. In an <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/yes-the-energy-transition-is-coming-but-probably-not-in-our-lifetime\">interview<\/a> with Capital &amp; Main and New Mexico PBS in January, Missi Currier, the group\u2019s president and CEO, and one of the state\u2019s fiercest oil and gas promoters, said, \u201cTo get to an energy transition, you must first go through an energy expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She continued, \u201cSo will we transition from oil and gas one day? Yes. Is it going to happen in our lifetime? Probably not.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a lobbyist filing with the New Mexico Secretary of State\u2019s Office, Currier <a href=\"https:\/\/login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us\/\/ReportsOutput\/\/LCD\/7c587af4-d2a4-4119-95c5-3aed66852727.pdf\">reported<\/a> spending nearly $102,000 with McGuire Woods, a Virginia-based legal and government affairs firm, on ads opposing the bill in the days before its Senate hearing. Dozens of ads targeting individual Democratic legislators ran on Facebook and Instagram, and Stewart said she saw \u201cTV ads trashing me every night.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A group called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmforopportunity.org\/about\">New Mexicans for Opportunity<\/a> also ran ads opposing SB18, and made a YouTube video titled \u201cNo California Problems in New Mexico.\u201d The public-sounding group <a href=\"https:\/\/login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us\/#\/exploreLobbyistAdvertisingDetailPublic\/IrT3-huqzbhqx6sm_Jlu8JP4048PFnxLXRUfdOLcQk01\/1\/2026\">is registered<\/a> with the Secretary of State as a lobbying advertising campaign, and its entry on the department website names Currier as the person registering the campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group\u2019s website lists a who\u2019s who of New Mexico chambers of commerce, oil trade groups, a conservative think tank and the Consumer Energy Alliance, among others, as members. Alex Curtas, director of communications at the Secretary of State\u2019s Office, said that state <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/codes\/new-mexico\/chapter-2\/article-11\/section-2-11-6\/\">law<\/a> doesn\u2019t require such groups to report ad spending until 15 days after the legislative session ends \u2014 March 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jessie Hunt, the communications director for the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, referred questions about New Mexicans for Opportunity to the group\u2019s website and didn\u2019t respond to Stewart\u2019s accusations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a statement, Currier said the vote \u201cunderscores the widespread and bipartisan recognition that this legislation would have imposed costly and unrealistic mandates on families and businesses across our state.\u201d She went on to say, \u201cOur industry remains committed to reducing emissions, embracing innovation, and advancing responsible energy development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart said that the senators who voted against the bill were \u201ccompletely misinformed as to what the bill actually is. \u2026 They didn\u2019t ask me a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two of the seven Democrats who voted against the bill, Sen. George Mu\u00f1oz (D-Gallup) and Sen. Benny Shendo (D-Jemez Pueblo), were the <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/in-democratic-new-mexico-oil-and-gas-legislation-doesnt-pass#:~:text=Later%2C%20in%20a%20Senate%20Finance%20Committee%20hearing\">decisive votes<\/a> killing a version of the Clear Horizons Act in last year\u2019s session. None of the seven \u2014 including Sens. Roberto Gonzales, Shannon Pinto, Joseph Cervantes, Martin Hickey and Antonio Maestas \u2014 responded to requests for comment sent to their offices and to the Senate Democrats\u2019 communications director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart said that without someone taking the lead to reduce methane emissions, \u201cNew Mexico is in for some terrible extreme weather and some horrible, just horrible things that are going to happen to us.\u201d She cited fires, floods and the resulting difficulty of finding affordable home insurance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Camilla Feibelman, the director of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter, was one of the bill\u2019s most vocal supporters \u2014 a yin to Currier\u2019s yang. The day after the vote, in an interview with Capital &amp; Main and New Mexico PBS, Feibelman echoed and expanded on Stewart\u2019s thoughts. \u201cThere is no snow pack to speak of. This means no spring runoff, no recharge of our aquifers, curtailed irrigation. We have a new species of mosquito here in New Mexico. A member of the Senate\u2019s husband has West Nile virus because of one of those mosquitoes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The last three years were not just the hottest on record \u2014 they were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2026\/climate-change-temperature-rate-accelerating\/?itid=sf_climate-environment_toptable_1_2\">even warmer<\/a> than the historic warming trend would predict. And some scientists are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2026\/feb\/08\/global-weather-el-nino-pacific-ocean-high-temperatures-2027\">saying<\/a> that if an El Ni\u00f1o sets up in the Pacific Ocean next year as expected, 2027 could be warmer still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSo the cost to our people and our state is profound,\u201d Feibelman continued. \u201cBut \u2026 a majority of the Senate decided we would prefer to pay for those damages directly. And that\u2019s what happened. I\u2019m sorry about it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stewart said she will be back with another attempt next session because the underlying issues aren\u2019t going away. \u201cClimate change is not going to change between now and next January.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTechnologies exist to do almost all of these reductions,\u201d Feibelman said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To be clear, opponents of SB18 weren\u2019t the only ones buying ads. Feibelman is herself a registered lobbyist for the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter, and she <a href=\"https:\/\/login.cfis.sos.state.nm.us\/\/ReportsOutput\/\/LCD\/8e92d5f4-5951-40ff-9f17-7b0182297eea.pdf\">reported<\/a> spending $6,800 for ads supporting SB18 in the Santa Fe New Mexican, the Legislature\u2019s hometown paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This story was originally published at <a href=\"https:\/\/capitalandmain.com\/\">Capital and Main<\/a>, a NMPBS partner. 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