@airresources.bsky.social proposal released today to update Cap-and-Invest fails to do the bare minimum to meet CA’s pollution reduction targets for 2030. CARB must urgently fix its proposal so the Board can vote this spring on a viable framework. Our full statement. www.edf.org/media/cap-an...
Sometimes the sign is literally in the sky ☁️✨
Clean air, strong climate action, and a future our communities can count on is not too much to ask. SB18 needs a Do Pass. 🗣️🌎
#NMNativeVote #SB18 #ClearHorizonsAct #NMlegis #NativeVoters
Business voices for SB18
Randy Sadewic from Positive Energy Solar testifies in support of the Clear Horizons Act, explaining why long-term planning and clear rules are essential for New Mexico businesses and workers.
Day 23 of 25. The ENERGY is RISING and gathering in a profound way as we near our landing at the roundhouse on in just 2 days. We are in the final leg of this Pilgrimage. Today we are walking from Galisteo, into the familiar silhouettes of the ancestral Tewa lands of Santa Fe.
Public comment in support of the Clear Horizons Act begins! We support protecting hardworking NM families from rising climate costs by providing certainty to invest in our future, creating jobs, and holding major polluters accountable to do their fair share. 🙌🏽 🥳 #ClearHorizonsAct #ActOnClimate
Look at these kickass New Mexicans standing up to ask our kickass Legislature for climate action and protection for our kids’ future!
🚨 HAPPENING THURSDAY: SB18: Clear Horizons Act heads to Senate Conservation!
🗓️ Jan 29 | 🕘 9AM | 📍 Room 311
📢 Tell the committee: PASS SB18 for climate, jobs & justice!
📩 Contact them 👉 nmlegis.gov/Committee/Standing_Commi...
🔗 clearhorizonsnm.org
#SB18 #nmleg
TY @govmlg.bsky.social for the energy & clear directive in asking #NMLeg to put harmful pollution limits in law! NM families & communities need action on climate now & businesses need the certainty. Let's plan now to avoid paying more in the future. Pass the Clear Horizons Act! #NMLeg #ActOnClimate
New session, new momentum. 🌄 Sen. Mimi Stewart lays out why the Clear Horizons Act is a long-term plan to protect families, provide certainty, and help NM plan ahead instead of paying more later. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n... #ClearHorizonsNM #NMleg #ClimateActionNM #CleanEnergy
A West-wide electricity market is closer than ever! Here's an overview from @michaelbueno.bsky.social and @colvin.bsky.social of how we got here and where we're going: blogs.edf.org/climate411/2...
@michaelbueno.bsky.social and I wrote a blog on about the Western Electricity markets @edf-ca.bsky.social blogs.edf.org/climate411/2...
We can’t pass down poisoned land and call it a legacy...
to protect what we've inherited we need bonding reform, forcing oil companies to fully fund well plugging/cleanup. So far abandoned wells have cost taxpayers $100M. #NMPol
hat tip @westernlaw.org
www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...
Cap and trade is the most cost-effective climate policy CA has to reduce pollution and fight climate change while cutting costs for families and growing our economy. Lawmakers must extend an ambitious program this year! www.latimes.com/environment/...
📢 NEW: Japan is joining EDF & other partners in int'l collab to reduce emissions across liquefied natural gas supply chain—"smartest, most practical steps the energy sector can take right now to cut climate pollution & secure gas supplies” - EDF Pres. Fred Krupp.
More: www.edf.org/media/japan-...
Senate passage of SB 540 is a key step to ensure CA is at the forefront of a revolution in electricity markets across the West. We look forward to refining & improving the bill in the Assembly so CA can realize the full benefits of market cooperation.
www.rtoinsider.com/106937-tenta...
Today’s cap&trade results show another dip in prices, capturing the very real cost of uncertainty around the reauthorization of this program post-2030.
Swift and ambitious action is needed to provide certainty & bolster the revenue that is critical for climate action & communities www.edf.org/Z6Ki
Thank you @heinrich.senate.gov for standing up for clean air, for clean cars and trucks, and for the expert, technical rulemaking at the U.S. EPA, that we used to have. Polluters are driving the car now.
America's stronger, cleaner future is at risk.
This week, 2 key U.S. House committees advanced a plan that undermines an American-made energy boom while threatening people’s health w/ more pollution.
More on this threat to Americans' ability to thrive: blogs.edf.org/climate411/2...
As #CALeg works to extend California’s cap-and-trade program this year, our new report w/ Greenline Insights finds extending the program through 2045 will significantly benefit California families, climate & economy.
📝Read the full report here: www.greenlineinsights.com/investments-...
@governor.ca.gov recently called the cap-and-trade program “one of our most effective tools to cut emissions & create good-paying jobs.”
As CA looks to extend cap&trade, it can't afford to forget about the essence of the program: the cap itself.
#CAleg @keroednersutter.bsky.social
www.edf.org/Z6zu
This week, we spoke in support of Senate Bill 540 at the California Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill:
🌞 gives CA the fastest and cheapest path to a 100% clean energy economy
🏭 cuts pollution from dirty power plants by 31% &
💸 saves $800 million each year.
#CAleg @keroednersutter.bsky.social
Our statement from Alliance co-chairs New York Governor Kathy Hochul and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham: “The federal government cannot unilaterally strip states’ independent constitutional authority. We are a nation of states — and laws — and we will not be deterred. We will keep advancing solutions to the climate crisis that safeguard Americans’ fundamental right to clean air and water, create good-paying jobs, grow the clean energy economy, and make our future healthier and safer.”
Today, the President issued an executive order targeting states’ authority to tackle the climate crisis.
Our statement from Alliance co-chairs @governor.ny.gov & @govmlg.bsky.social ➡️ usclimatealliance.org/press-releases/alliance-statement-on-executive-order-targeting-state-authority-apr-2025/
This session, Senator Mimi Stewart (SD 17) lead progress on climate through a trio of policies aimed at community resilience and pollution mitigation. 2 out of 3 of those policies passed. We applaud Sen. Stewart for her steadfast dedication to climate action as a true climate champ!
👏 Huge THANK YOU to all the legislators, advocates, community leaders & supporters who made Community Benefit Fund SB48 & Innovation in Govt Fund SB83 possible. Your dedication is paving the way for a cleaner stronger & more resilient NM! Now it's up to Gov. Lujan Grisham-ask her to sign the bills!
"Lawmakers sent the @govmlg.bsky.social a bill establishing a new $210 million community benefit fund solely dedicated to projects focused on reducing pollution, modernizing energy grids, clean transpo expansion and other climate-change related initiatives." Thanks KOB! www.kob.com/new-mexico/r...
In a huge win for NM, the Community Benefit Fund (SB48) has passed in the House and is headed to the governor for final approval! SB48 invests $210M in clean energy, economic diversification, jobs, sustainable economic growth, and more.
Senate Bill 83 to create the Innovation in State Government Fund passes the House 31-25 and heads to Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk! 🎉🎉🎉 Many thanks to Senate Pro Tem Mimi Stewart and Rep. Kristina Ortez for your hard and excellent work!
SB83 funds NM state government agencies to implement important climate policy
Another NM #Climate victory as #SB83 is on its way to the Governor's desk. Thank you #NMLeg!
What SB83 will do for NM:
✅ Helps state agencies create and implement climate action plans
✅ Supports job creation in sustainable industries
✅ Builds long-term resilience and accountability
Regarding the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire, the Forest Service relied on poor weather data & failed to understand how climate change had dried out the landscape, which contributed to how much damage it caused and how large it became. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
More asthma, cancer and higher energy bills--that's what the Trump Administration is promoting by bringing back coal
