New Mexico will receive $43.7 million in federal infrastructure money to clean up abandoned oil wells as part of an initial $1.15 billion in funding for the nationwide effort to remove these sources of air and groundwater pollution....
A plan for how the U.S. Department of Interior (DOI) will offer about $4 billion in grant funding to states for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells is due on Jan. 30, and New Mexico is hoping to get a share of those dollars....
The proposed regulations would require each state to submit plans for reducing methane emissions. Native American tribes like the Navajo Nation would not be included in their respective states’ plans. Instead, each tribal government can submit its own plan or the EPA can develop a plan for the Tribe....