March 2020, Vol. 247, No. 3

Features

Methane Emissions: Fugitives on the Loose

By Richard Nemec, Contributing Editor Steeped in New Mexico politics and public service from an old line Democratic Party family, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham did not hesitate to jump on the climate change bandwagon and commit to address the issue aggressively when she ran for the governor’s job in 2018 while still serving in the U.S. House of Representatives.  A year into her leadership of the state where her family has served in public office for decades, Lujan Grisham’s administration, in the last four months of 2019, created a blueprint for cutting methane emissions from the state’s abundantly productive oil and natural gas industry.

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