Community organizations testifying today in Farmington, New Mexico to insure that polluting coal fired power plants are retired and replaced with renewable energy. Incredible representation by Western Environmental Law Center with our partners Dine CARE, NPCA and NAEVA.
July 2020: @EnchantEnergy says "we can start [construction] in May of 2021" on the San Juan #CCUS project. A year later, Enchant has no permits, lacks funding and hasn't even completed its initial engineering study. https://t.co/bmL9A0pcg7
Enduring Resources site <2,000ft from an elementary school. Workers informed us it was "routine maintenance." Who else felt nauseated after watching the #methane & #VOCs being released into the air? It then carried in the wind towards the school💨🚸👧🏾👦🏾 https://t.co/BsFKiVMAzb
“Blue hydrogen is basically nothing but a smokescreen for more air pollution, mining, and fossil fuel use with hardly any CO2 benefit”
Experts sound the alarm on oil sector's blue hydrogen push
https://t.co/ocVXLp9U2v @ClimateHome @howarth_cornell @ssteingraber1@TXsharon@IEA
"Housing developments now dominate the Front Range. In Boulder County, the suburbs were often built on the scaffolds of old coal-mining towns."
This is a great essay by @kateschimel about mining histories, fire, and sprawl in @highcountrynews:
https://t.co/O8WrAt2Obi
“By underfunding oversight agencies, the legislature shields the #oilandgas industry from accountability”
@riogranderift on #nmleg proposed funding of @NMEnvDep@EmnrdNM
latest @capitalandmain https://t.co/ovEHBz3Tk1
The #carboncapture project proposed by @EnchantEnergy is the poster child for why more stringent oversight is needed to cut the risk of "expending significant taxpayer funds on CCS demonstrations that have little likelihood of success." https://t.co/OgrCOpzv8T
Nearly two years behind schedule, begging for $1 billion in fed loans, no engineering study, laughable timeline for securing permits, unproven technology - twilight zone is putting it mildly.
Breaking: 10th Circuit rules federal courts have jurisdiction over challenge to City of Farmington's discriminatory electric rates for customers w/rooftop solar. Congress tried to stop this sort of abuse of monopoly power in 1978. Now our clients will have their day in court.⚖️