Let鈥檚 Talk New Mexico, 4/03/25, 8am: The 2025 New Mexico legislature recently ended and among the 1,100+ bills filed, a handful addressed regulating the state鈥檚 cash cow 鈥� the oil and gas industry. .
On the next Let鈥檚 Talk New Mexico, we鈥檒l discuss the power of the industry in our statehouse and why legislators to change rules for the industry that brings about a third of the state鈥檚 total revenue while being the .
How do you reconcile the competing urgencies of funding our state and fighting climate change? Are there particular regulations you鈥檇 like to see when it comes to oil and gas, like required setbacks of extraction sites from schools or higher leasing fees? Email letstalk@kunm.org, leave a voice message by clicking the link below, or call in live at (505) 277-5866 Thursday morning at 8.
Guests:
- Jerry Redfern, journalist,
- Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Executive Director,
- Ben Shelton, Acting Deputy Secretary, New Mexico
- Rep. (D-Do帽a Ana)
