Under the direction of Andrew Wheeler, the EPA is proposing to find that mercury, a potent neurotoxin that can ruin a person’s fair shake at life before they’re ever born, is neither appropriate nor necessary to regulate from coal plants—by far mercury pollution’s largest source. You have until Wednesday, April 17 to submit a public comment and share your opinion on this toxic proposal. Read more >
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New Mexico Commits to 100
March 22, 2019 3:12 PM EDT
This is where the dazzling new policy that commits New Mexico to 100-percent carbon-free electricity begins: at an uneconomic coal plant, and a bankrupt coal mine, with a collection of workers and communities careening toward change. Read more >

SB 489 is the Clean Energy Catalyst New Mexico Needs
February 22, 2019 9:09 AM EDT
With the arrival of a new governor, New Mexico’s clean energy potential has swiftly snapped into focus after long seeming just out of reach. But vision is one thing, reality is another, and it takes a plan to navigate the liminal space. SB 489 offers that response. Read more >

New Mexico’s Clean Energy Opportunity Knocks
January 17, 2019 9:58 AM EDT
Look out, clean energy leaders, there’s a new governor in town—and this one campaigned atop a wind turbine.

5 Tips for Working in the Trump Administration Like an Absolute Pro
December 17, 2018 9:34 AM EDT
Are you a new political appointee looking to join your administration peers in governing by deregulatory splash? Does the idea of winning the title of Best Worst Rule-Maker of Them All make you want to jump to the front to assume the mantle of dismantle? Would you be interested in throwing logic, scholarship, and ethics out the window in favor of the unbridled thrill of flying by the seat of no pants?
If yes, then read on, because the below five tips have been systematically shown to plummet Trump appointees from hero to zero in under one rulemaking flat.