NM Ratepayers Facing EIB Ruling

Capitol Report New Mexico - Approve a costly plan regulating the amount of pollution that causes haze in the atmosphere or adopt a plan that isn’t as stringent but would cost New Mexico electricity customers a lot less money? That’s what the newly-constituted Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) will decide in the next few days as the members of the board appointed by Gov. Susana Martinez make their first major decision since they replaced the controversial members of the EIB appointed by former Gov. Bill Richardson. In Santa Fe on Wednesday (June 1), the board members listened to environmentalists urging them to adopt a plan by the federal government’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) restricting pollutants generated by the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station near Farmington. Members also heard from the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the state’s largest utility, PNM, who advised the board to adopt a state implementation program instead. Read full story here: News New Mexico

NM Ratepayers Facing EIB Ruling