CVNM Statement in Response to Release of LCV’s Clean Energy for All State Successes Report
[Santa Fe] – Today, the League of Conservation Voters released its annual Clean Energy Successes in the States report. The report details how 30 states, led by state affiliates in the Conservation Voters Movement (CVM), passed, funded, and implemented solutions to lower energy costs, advance clean energy, reduce harmful pollution, and tackle the climate crisis.
The Trump administration has blocked clean energy and given handouts to the fossil fuel industry—policies that raise utility bills—even as the 2025 elections highlighted energy affordability as a top concern for people across the country.
In the absence of federal leadership, state legislatures across the country passed laws to expand solar and battery storage, improve energy transmission, clean up transportation and building pollution, and implement these laws and other vital climate policies and programs. State elected leaders also passed critical new consumer protections from utility abuses and rising costs driven by data center expansion and attacks on clean energy. These efforts are paying off: states with higher levels of wind and solar are seeing lower-than-average electric bills. New Mexico now gets 49% of its electricity supply from wind and solar, but its average retail electricity price, at $0.09 per kwh, is well below the national average.
In response, Conservation Voters New Mexico (CVNM) Climate & Energy Advocate Justin Garoutte issued the following statement:
“The Trump administration has been cutting funding, undermining agencies, and eliminating energy and climate rules and programs at the federal level. Meanwhile, state progress in 2025 shows that New Mexico continues to forge a path forward to an affordable and equitable clean energy future.
“The 2025 New Mexico legislature voted to invest over $410 million in climate and community resilience to extreme weather events like fires, floods, heat and drought. The state is also on track to take control of all surface water quality permits including those still under the greatly diminished federal Clean Water Act, putting New Mexico waters in New Mexico hands. There is increased support for local solar (HB 128), and oil and gas operations on state lands will have to start paying a higher royalty rate (SB 23).
“Working with our partners, allies, and decision-makers, we continue to strengthen the state’s ability to protect our air, land, water, wildlife and community health. By mobilizing grassroots power and building strong coalitions we are winning equitable climate and clean energy policies and ensuring benefits reach all New Mexicans. The Conservation Voters Movement is essential—not only to counter Trump administration attacks but to continue leading New Mexico and the nation toward a future with affordable clean energy for all.”
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Conservation Voters New Mexico is a statewide, nonpartisan nonprofit committed to connecting the people of New Mexico to their political power to protect our air, land and water for a healthy Land of Enchantment. We do this by mobilizing voters, winning elections, holding elected officials accountable and advancing responsible public policies.