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Jon Goldstein

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Energy, environmental policy and the Baltimore Orioles. Not always in that order.

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Don Schreiber/Methane Mad Man @vivarioarriba.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
With Trump collapsing federal protections for New Mexico’s clean air and water… it has never been more important to elect strong state leaders willing to fight for the Land of Enchantment. We’ve known Deb for decades and are so proud to support her vision to keep New Mexico healthy…and beautiful.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
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Here's How Much More You're Spending on Gas Because of the Iran War
Calculating the cost of war is an imperfect science, but economic analyses offer a sense of how fighting far away can disrupt American life.
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Nearly $5B in natural gas has been wasted since the Trump administration stopped enforcing methane rules last March. That’s lost energy, higher costs and more pollution — while corporate polluters get a free pass. Check out our methane waste counter ➡️ www.edf.org/national-met...
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Way to go @nmenvdep.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
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New Mexico Rebukes Federal Agency Over Nuclear Waste at Los Alamos
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Aaron Freeman @aaronfreemanca.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
New 2030 oil & gas methane regs are a huge climate win for the planet. Congrats to the groups who pushed so hard for so many years -- EDF, Pembina Institute, Canadian Assn of Physicians for the Environment, David Suzuki Foundation, For Our Kids, Canadian Climate Institute, and others.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
As in the NM Permian, solid data + strong state policy = methane emissions reductions.
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
New EDF Release: EDF Celebrates Finalization of Canada’s Oil and Gas Methane Regulations Read more here ⬇️ edf.org/Z6Vd
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EDF Celebrates Finalization of Canada’s Oil and Gas Methane Regulations
Today the Canadian Government announced the finalization of its long-awaited oil and gas methane regulation.
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Michael Bennet @bennet.senate.gov · 10/12/2025
As Colorado’s ranchers struggle to get by, President Trump must not make matters worse by creating more uncertainty. Yet his incoherent trade policies continue to betray our ranchers, making it harder for them to recover from years of hardship.
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Colorado ranchers say White House beef policy is making a tough job even tougher
Ranchers and industry advocates said the Trump administration's decision to buy more Argentinian beef was particularly damaging because the announcement came during the one time of year when local ran...
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Aaron Freeman @aaronfreemanca.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Excellent analysis by Pembina: Delaying Alberta’s 75% methane target by 5 years would result in 1.9 Mt of additional methane in the atmosphere ... the same amount of emissions as is produced by 12 million gas cars over the course of a year. Or roughly half the cars in Canada.
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No, the Ottawa-Alberta MoU is not a win on methane | Pembina Institute
Last week’s memorandum of understanding between the federal government and the Government of Alberta was a step backwards for reducing methane emissions in Canada. While much of the focus has been on…
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Aaron Freeman @aaronfreemanca.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Wise counsel from CEC's Rachel Doran: "Canada must work diligently to ensure it is not trading future climate promises that, as history suggests, could be reneged on in exchange for higher oil- and gas-related emissions today." cleanenergycanada.org/ottawa-alber...
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Ottawa-Alberta "grand bargain” could trade away Canada’s climate framework if firm negotiations don’t follow - Clean Energy Canada
TORONTO — Rachel Doran, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the Canada-Alberta Memorandum of Understanding regarding a new energy deal:   “Today’s…
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Western Leaders Network @westernleaders.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Delaying the #cutmethane rule ignores the broad, bipartisan support behind these commonsense safeguards and dismisses the voices of local, Tribal and state elected officials working for clean air, a healthier climate, and strong economies.
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E.P.A. Delays Requirements to Cut Methane, a Potent Greenhouse Gas
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Aaron Freeman @aaronfreemanca.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In 10 years, BC’s gas production grew by more than 2/3, while methane emissions fell by more than 50%. It met its 2025 methane target 2 years early and is making good progress to 2030. We urgently need federal regulations ensuring the rest of Canada catches up. www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
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Methane regulation is a climate-competitive home run
This year’s COP is a vital moment for Prime Minister Mark Carney to deliver on a key Canadian climate promise, showcase responsible energy development, and advance economic opportunities.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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The David vs. Goliath Story of a Ranching Family and an Oil Giant
They were cowboys amid the mesas in a corner of New Mexico. For years they coexisted with an oil company — until one day they couldn’t.
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For Our Kids Canada @forourkidscanada.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
We’re glad to see #methane mentioned in the #federalbudget —but actions speak louder than words. Canada needs clear targets and timelines to drive these emissions down and give our kids a chance at a livable future. Cut it now - for our kids, our air, our future.
A photo of a smokestack spewing pollution into the air. Text says 'methane gets a mention in the federal budget. but actions speak louder than words. we need bold action and we need it now!'
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
🛰️ New insights from @methanesat.bsky.social data show oil and gas methane intensity in New Mexico is less than half that of Texas in the Permian Basin — corresponding with strong state standards under @govmlg.bsky.social. 🔍 Check it out: www.edf.org/Z6rC
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
At #ClimateWeekNYC, we’re bringing together scientists, artists, creative & cultural voices, along with an immersive film screening, to spotlight a powerful climate solution. See the methane story in a whole new way. 📅Tuesday, 9/23, 5-6 PM 🔗Register: edf.org/Z6rr
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Don Schreiber/Methane Mad Man @vivarioarriba.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Here's a great story abt how New Mexico ranchers teamed up w/environmentalists, regulators and even oilfield contractors to attack the estimated $1.6B problem of unplugged oil & gas wells and storage facilities. It all starts w/requiring adequate plugging bonds. capitalandmain.com/new-mexicos-...
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
@climateinstitute.bsky.social is right: finalizing methane regulations for the oil and gas sector is one of the most effective ways to cut emissions quickly using existing, available, and effective technologies!
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Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
As Parliament resumes next week, the federal government must act urgently to address the ways climate change is threatening Canadians’ health, security, economic competitiveness, and ways of life. Read our full statement ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/as-parl...
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As Parliament returns, protecting Canadians and our economy from climate change must be a top priority
Statement from the Canadian Climate Institute’s Peter Nicholson Sr. and Rick Smith on policy priorities for the fall 2025 sitting of Parliament.
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Methane pollution is fueling the climate crisis and harming communities. The Trump EPA's unlawful delay of commonsense protections means more wasted gas, polluted air and climate damage. @envdefensefund.bsky.social & allies are fighting back. www.edf.org/Z6r8
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Environmental Defense Fund @envdefensefund.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We don’t have time to waste in the fight against dangerous air pollution and climate change. That’s why we joined a dozen other groups to ask courts to overturn a Trump EPA Rule delaying protections against more industrial pollution, waste, and planet-warming gases: bit.ly/4oKt7H6
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Groups Ask Court to Block Trump EPA Rule That Delays Protections Against Oil and Gas Methane Pollution
Delayed protections keep dangerous pollution out of our air and reduce wasted energy from oil and gas leaks, venting and flaring.
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Vet Voice Foundation @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
“Climate change is a threat multiplier. That’s not just my opinion — it’s the stated position of the Department of Defense, going back decades.” - MG (Ret.) Paul Eaton, Vet Voice Foundation Rolling back protections isn’t just anti-science. It’s anti-security. MORE: www.stripes.com/opinion/2025...
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Western Environmental Law Center @westernlaw.org · 08/08/2025
NEWS RELEASE: We just filed testimony in a rulemaking to modernize #OilAndGas bonding in #NMPol to address the problem of public funds being used to plug abandoned wells in the state. So far, abandoned wells have cost taxpayers $100M in NM alone.
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Coalition of environmental groups, Tribal leaders, experts: Public health and environmental safety, public funds protection central to preventing abandoned wells in NM - Western Environmental Law Cent...
Today, a coalition of environmental groups, Tribal leaders, and experts submitted testimony to the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission in support of long-overdue reforms to the state’s oil and gas ...
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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New Mexico stays the course in climate change regulation policies amid federal priority shifts
New Mexico’s clean energy and environmental advocates are recoiling from energy policy shifts set in motion by the Trump administration this week, including the possible rollback of a major scientific
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Environmental Defense Fund @envdefensefund.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Two weeks ago, we learned @methanesat.bsky.social went dark, but its transformative impact shines on. It showed what ambitious climate action can achieve—and why now is the time to take bold risks for even bolder solutions. More from EDF President Fred Krupp: www.weforum.org/stories/2025...
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Why our methane-detecting satellite shows that climate action must now aim sky-high
With the world lagging behind schedule on dealing with the climate crisis, bolder solutions are required – like a pioneering pollution-hunting satellite.
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
➡️ Canada PM @mark-carney.bsky.social has made it clear that Canada needs economic growth and emissions reductions. A new Op-Ed in the @edmontonjournal.com from a @uwaterloo.ca economist argues the methane mitigation industry is a great opportunity to do both: edmontonjournal.com/opinion/colu...
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Opinion: Methane mitigation could be Canada's next growth industry
Across Canada's oil and gas sector, a promising young industry is preparing to embrace economic opportunity: preventing release of methane,
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Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter @sierrariogrande.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thank you Senator Ben Ray Luján for your efforts to save the Methane Emissions Reduction Program and protect New Mexican from this toxic air pollution that costs our state tax dollars thru the methane polluter fee. #CutMethane www.congress.gov/amendment/11...
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
THANK YOU @lujan.senate.gov for your tireless efforts to protect NM from methane pollution and waste including filing an amendment that would have seen the groundbreaking Methane Emissions Reduction Program and its pollution fee implemented ASAP. www.congress.gov/amendment/11...
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EDF Energy Transition @edfenergyex.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Japan’s government wants stronger emissions monitoring for the LNG they buy, and Canada’s government is supporting their efforts. Read more here about this moment for Canadian climate leadership, and why finalizing federal methane regs would help: www.edf.org/Z6Ks
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Asian economies want low-emission natural gas – here’s how Canada can deliver - Energy Exchange
Japan’s government and Canada’s government are both backing an effort to build stronger emissions monitoring for the natural gas that Japan buys internationally. Canada’s leaders can seize this opport...
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Source New Mexico @sourcenm.com · 26/06/2025
New Mexico could face ballooning costs to address oil and gas wells abandoned by operators – sometimes called “orphan wells” — and the problem is poised to get bigger, according to a new report.
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New report: New Mexico on the hook for millions, if not billions, to plug oil and gas wells • Source New Mexico
New Mexico could face ballooning costs to address oil and gas wells abandoned by operators, called “orphan wells" in coming years.
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Appalachian Leaders Network @appalachianleaders.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The Waste Emissions Charge – a commonsense fee to #cutmethane that would only affect the biggest polluters – is under threat in the proposed budget reconciliation bill. Delaying or obstructing implementation of vital climate protections like these defies public consensus and puts our future at risk.
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GOP aims to roll back methane rule Americans largely support
New Mexico is a leader in trying to reduce methane pollution from the oil and gas industry but Congress wants to prevent implementation of a federal rule which would do the same. As part of the 2026 ...
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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GOP aims to roll back methane rule Americans largely support
New Mexico is a leader in trying to reduce methane pollution from the oil and gas industry but Congress wants to prevent implementation of a federal rule which would do the same. As part of the 2026 ...
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Blue Land of Enchantment lures unhappy Texans www.npr.org/2025/05/20/n...
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Blue Land of Enchantment lures unhappy Texans
New Mexico, the Land of Enchantment, has quietly become a blue refuge in the MAGA red West for Americans who are fleeing extreme conservative strongholds.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The Methane Emissions Reduction Program was put together with input from the oil & gas industry to help them take common sense measures to #CutMethane. Thank you Rep. @FrankPallone for the reminder that a repeal of MERP funding and fee postponement doesn’t make sense.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Great piece on the climate and clean energy progress in NM last session and the need for more in the session to come. ladailypost.com/op-ed-a-futu...
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Op-Ed: A Future Worth Working For – Clean Air, Good Jobs, Climate Justice
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Canada Rejects Statehood www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/o...
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Opinion | Canada Rejects Statehood
The anger in Canada is evident in many other ways; Canadians have always felt close to but distinct from Americans. A hostile America was something they never imagined.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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Op-Ed: Public Lands Are Under Attack. Governors can Protect them.
Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland believes that elected officials at the state level should use their power to protect the country’s public lands from drilling and development
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Nature Is Medicine: A Doctor’s Call To Rethink Health In The Age Of Climate Change
After decades in medicine, I’ve come to see something fundamental: the health of our planet and the health of our people are inseparable.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
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Oil companies expected a big business boom under Trump. Now they're worried
Many oil company executives celebrated Donald Trump's return to the White House. But now expectations of higher profits are fading amid fears of a recession.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Here's my methane circle. The colors show how much methane was added to the atmosphere each year of my life. Proud to be working on solutions that will make my son's circle tell a better story than my own. Learn more and make your own circle at TimeForCH4nge.org.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
“We don’t want Washington, D.C., telling us we can’t govern the way we see fit. We are not going to capitulate.” Here here @philweiser.bsky.social ! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...
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Trump Threatens Climate Policies in the States
After halting federal attempts to combat global warming, President Trump is now targeting efforts by states to reduce greenhouse gases, setting up a legal clash.
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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The University President Willing to Fight Trump
Christopher L. Eisgruber of Princeton University talks about the administration’s move to freeze billions of dollars in funding to higher education institutions.
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U.S. Climate Alliance @usclimate.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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/
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.”
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Oil Executives Are Quiet on Trump Policies. Privately, They’re Worried www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...
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Oil Executives Refrain From Publicly Criticizing Trump or His Tariffs
Eager to stay in Mr. Trump’s good graces, oil executives refrain from publicly criticizing the president. But privately, ‘Everyone’s afraid.’
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
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Jon Goldstein @jonwgoldstein.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Why states across the country would be smart to again look to Colorado for leadership on oil and gas methane. blogs.edf.org/energyexchan...
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The Colorado Way Delivers with a Unanimous Vote for a Groundbreaking Oil and Gas Methane Rule - Energy Exchange
It’s not limited to Colorado though– other states can and should take note that early collaboration with stakeholders can deliver big wins for the economy and climate. By Nini Gu As the first state to...
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Celerah Hewes @celerah.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
State level action on climate is possible in New Mexico-our children deserve nothing less! Read my op-ed www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...
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Families deserve a healthy future — and that means clean air
In New Mexico, the signs of a changing climate are more than just abstract forecasts — they are a daily reality. From record-breaking temperatures to unpredictable weather events and wildfires,
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Vet Voice Foundation @vetvoicefoundation.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Great OpEd —> “Real energy leadership should consider national security and act on cutting wasteful and harmful methane emissions. We must remember Louisiana has built an energy legacy on strength and resilience, but we must also adapt to remain competitive.” MORE: www.nola.com/opinions/gue...
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