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I strongly oppose these efforts to weaken these vital standards and will continue working to protect New Mexicans’ health, our environment, and energy needs.
When families are concerned about energy costs, we should be keeping more natural gas in pipelines and harmful pollution out of our air, not rolling back commonsense protections.
The Trump administration’s move to weaken federal methane standards is a step that puts public health, our environment, and our energy security at risk.
New Mexico has shown that strong methane protections can support our energy industry while protecting public health, creating jobs, and preventing valuable energy from going to waste.
In the short term, what I'd really like to see is a hand-in-glove approach between Russia and the World Health Organization. That would tell us a lot.
I would be very concerned if this were an engineered pathogen. I don't have any unique information saying that is the case. But if it were the case, that would be cause for alarm.
In the permitting bill, that we just released text on a little over a week ago, we mandate that [data centers] have to pay for both the electricity and for any grid upgrades. And we prohibit passing those costs along to average ratepayers…
Senator Luján spoke out against the Trump administration’s illegal “pocket rescission” that would strip nearly $1 billion in funds meant to support American families.
Military families already sacrifice so much to serve our country — they shouldn’t also have to worry about whether their children have enough to eat or can access the meals they need at school.
FERC has never been in the business of picking winners and losers—and they shouldn’t start today.
While issues remain with generator interconnection backlogs, favoring one form of generation over others is not a smart, cost-saving path forward.
We get shoddy work, like the Reflecting Pool, with taxpayer money funneled to the president’s donors.
Instead, we are spending our time and attention 'liberating' light bulbs that industry doesn’t even make and most of us haven’t even thought about in a decade.
Unfortunately, the Chairman has declined to bring weatherization bills up for a vote today.
At a time of rising electric bills and increasing new demands on the electric grid, this Committee should focus on lowering costs and increasing reliability.
Arts education gives students the opportunity to learn, express themselves, and discover new talents, but too many young people lack access to these opportunities," said Senator Luján.
The public and local communities deserve an opportunity to voice their concerns about visitor safety and the protection of federal lands and ecosystems.