Regulation
PRC Commissioner Jason Marks to Speak at Upcoming National Energy Events
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
This month, Jason Marks, District 1 Commissioner for the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC), is taking New Mexico’s progress in energy development to the national stage as an invited speaker at several energy events around the United States.
His first engagement -– the Solar Power International convention and exhibition in Dallas, Texas -– will feature Marks talking to engineering firms and utility companies about the Southwest’s maturing solar markets. Next, Marks travels to Chicago to speak to utility executives from around the country about regulatory issues at an Electric Utility Consultants, Inc. conference titled, “Electricity Pricing: The Impact of Regulation, Renewable, Distributed Resources and Enabling Infrastructure.”
Environmental Groups Act to Protect the Air in New Mexico and the Four Corners Region
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
In a push for healthier air across New Mexico and the Southwest, a coalition of environmental groups has filed a motion in federal court, approved today, to block an effort by New Mexico power company PNM to evade requirements of the Clean Air Act. In August, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ordered the installation of adequate pollution controls at the company’s San Juan Generating Station.
The groups explain that PNM is appealing the EPA ruling, even though the company had years of warning that changes were needed to bring the coal-fired plant into legal compliance. The Coalition will support EPA’s goal of greatly reducing the pollution the plant sends into the air each day. Those toxins find their way into the skies over national parks and into the lungs of residents in the Four Corners area, environmentalists say.
Guest Blog: Out with the Good, In with the Bad? Don't Let ABQ City Councilors Scrap 2009 Energy-Saving Building Code!
Original Author:
Democracy for New Mexico
Here is Scott Walker's own political version of the famous Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in physics:
Republicans are for certainty -- except when that would benefit Democrats. Then, they're for uncertainty.
Walker, commenting on the Department of Revenue's decision to slam small "roll your own" cigaret shops:
"What we hear from employers all the time … is they want the certainty of knowing what the law is, what the rules are, that they're applied universally and across the board."
But when implementing the state's new Voter ID law, the Walker administration has told its Department of Transportation service centers that they are not to volunteer to citizens seeking the IDs the information that, under the law, they don't have to pay the usual $28 fee if they're only going to use the card to get a ballot at a polling place.
So, businesses need certainty to create jobs! But if you're an average citizen? Walker wants you to keep on guessing! Especially if you're a member of the opposition.
Senator Ron Johnson has found a House member loony enough to join him as a co-sponsor of his bill to stop ALL new government regulations until the national unemployment rate goes down to 7.7 per cent, or the world ends, whichever comes first.
Great news, Wisconsin! RoJo's not our only certified nut case. The House member who signed on is Reid Ribble, a freshman Republican from Wisconsin,
Never mind that no one has credibly made an argument that regulations are what's costing us jobs, or that removing regulations would create them. (Note the word credibly; RoJo might make that argument, but it has no basis in fact."
Johnson said Thursday that the growth of regulation has been a “bipartisan problem” pre-dating the Obama administration but he and GOP colleagues who joined him Thursday assailed the president’s record on regulation.
“What this bill does is say stop the madness,” said Johnson.
Senator, you ARE the madness.
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