2024 Tax Credits A number of different tax-related items were proposed as bills and eventually consolidated into the tax omnibus bill, Adjust Income Tax Brackets…
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2024 Legislative Outcome – NM Match Fund
March 7, 2024
There is an enormous, once-in-a-lifetime amount of federal funding currently available to the state of New Mexico for building climate resilience, conservation projects, creating renewable…
2024 Legislative Outcome – Clean Fuel Standards
March 5, 2024
HB 41 Clean Fuel Standards is the kind of bill that looks great at first glance but needs further analysis to understand its true implications….
2024 Legislative Outcome – Clean Car Income Tax Credit
March 5, 2024
For a just and equitable energy transition to become reality, it needs robust support. The kind of transformative change required to construct and implement a…
CVNM Statement on State Senate Passage of HB 41
February 14, 2024
Clean Fuels will reduce air pollution and improve health outcomes for New Mexico communities. Yesterday, the New Mexico Senate passed HB 41 Clean Transportation Fuel Standards by a vote of 26 to 15.
New Mexico receives $68 federal million for state EV charging infrastructure under BIL
February 6, 2024
In January, the federal government announced the latest round of grant funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL). Passed into law in 2021, the BIL is a significant opportunity for New Mexico’s clean energy future.
SANTA FE – Today, the Biden Administration announced an immediate pause on permitting new methane gas projects and exports across the country. Liquified natural gas…
CVNM’s Response to the Sackett Decision
January 26, 2024
On May 25th, 2023, the Supreme Court released a devastating ruling eliminating federal safeguards for our waterways by gutting the Clean Waters Act. In the…
The need for state oil and gas reform
January 25, 2024
New Mexico’s oil and gas industry is one of the largest in the Mountain West. The Permian Basin in southeast New Mexico contains three of…
WIPP Renewal Permit Finalization
December 19, 2023
In the northern reaches of the Chihuahuan Desert, 30 miles east of the town of Carlsbad and the Pecos River, sits the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). It is the nation’s only deep repository for transuranic nuclear waste, storing such waste from around the country.