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As Enforcement Falls Short, Many Worry That Companies Are Flouting New Mexico’s Landmark Gas Flaring Rules

In 2021, New Mexico adopted regulations that were viewed as a model for reducing methane emissions from the flaring and venting of natural gas. But on the ground, watchdogs say they don’t see much of a change in oil and gas companies’ practices.

By Martha Pskowski

A malfunctioning flare at a tank battery in the New Mexico Permian Basin, photographed on Feb. 6, 2023. Incomplete combustion in a flare, as pictured, generates more emissions. Credit: WildEarth Guardians.
Cattle stand in their pasture in rural Lamadera, New Mexico. Credit: Robert Alexander/Getty Images

Amid Drought, Wealthy Homeowners in New Mexico are Getting a Tax Break to Water Their Lawns

By Wyatt Myskow

In an aerial view, an oil pumpjack works in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12, 2022 in Crane, Texas. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

EPA Moves Away From Permian Air Pollution Crackdown

By Martha Pskowski, Dylan Baddour

Jayden Mitchell, youth volunteer with the Santa Clara Pueblo forestry department, plants conifer seedlings near a pond in the Santa Clara canyon floodplain. Credit: Sara Van Note

Restoring Watersheds, and Hope, After New Mexico’s Record-Breaking Wildfires

By Sara Van Note

A Petroleum PR Blitz in New Mexico

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

The Hemenway boat ramp at the marina on Lake Mead, a reservoir on the Colorado River that has dropped significantly. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

State Tensions Rise As Water Cuts Deepen On The Colorado River

By Aydali Campa

Workers for an oilfield service company work at a drilling site in the Permian Basin oil field on Jan. 20, 2016 in the oil town of Andrews, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

A New GOP Climate Plan Is Long on Fossil Fuels, Short on Specifics

By Dan Gearino

An oil drilling rig is pictured on April 24, 2020 near Carlsbad, New Mexico. Credit: Paul Ratje/AFP via Getty Images

Why Won’t the Environmental Protection Agency Fine New Mexico’s Greenhouse Gas Leakers?

By Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

A sign welcomes passersby to an “Energy Sacrifice Zone” outside of Counselor, New Mexico, on Oct. 26, 2021. The Greater Chaco region has become a flashpoint between environmental activists and the oil and gas industry, which is expanding into the oil-rich land. Credit: Jimmy Cloutier/Howard Center for Investigative Journalism

New Mexico Wants it ‘Both Ways,’ Insisting on Environmental Regulations While Benefiting from Oil and Gas

By Isabel Koyama, Sarah Suwalsky, Jimmy Cloutier and Zach Van Arsdale

Maya van Rossum (second from left), the leader of the green amendment movement, attends the Walking 4 Climate rally outside the New Mexico State Capitol with New Mexico legislators and community members on Jan. 17, 2022. Credit: Green Amendment For the Generations

New Mexico Could Be the Fourth State to Add a Green Amendment to Its Constitution, But Time Is Short

By Aydali Campa

A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on December 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Biden Promised to Stop Oil Drilling on Public Lands. Is His Failure to Do So a Betrayal or a Smart Political Move?

By Marianne Lavelle

Devastation is seen after the Pine Gulch Fire on Aug. 27, 2020 near De Beque, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/MediaNews Group/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Climate Change Ravaged the West With Heat and Drought Last Year; Many Fear 2021 Will Be Worse

By Judy Fahys

An oil pumpjack works at dawn in the Permian Basin oil field on January 20, 2016 in the oil town of Andrews, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Super-Polluting Methane Emissions Twice Federal Estimates in Permian Basin, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

New Mexico capitol

NM Governor: Out to Halt the Clean Economy

By Maria Gallucci

New Mexico Adopts Emissions Cap, But Challenges Expected

By Elizabeth McGowan

Oil Magnate's Clean Energy Platform Draws Greens in N.M.

By Elizabeth McGowan

Sparks Fly in Big-Dollar New Mexico Shootout

By Elizabeth McGowan

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