Tell NM state senators who sided with Big Oil over New Mexicans: We expected better.

You failed your constituents with your Clear Horizons vote

As one of the 77 percent of New Mexicans who demand climate action today, I am deeply disappointed with your "No" vote on the Clear Horizons Act this last legislative session. Clear Horizons would have boosted our economy and raised our quality of life by making New Mexico a healthier and safer place to live. It set out reasonable benchmarks to be carefully implemented through rulemaking to build on the impressive 29% reduction in climate pollution that New Mexico has already achieved through policies like the ETA and methane safeguards. As the No. 2 oil producer and among the top gas producers in the nation, New Mexico has an outsized impact on the nation's climate emissions, and that means our solutions have a greater impact, and do in fact influence other states to amplify our impact. The oil and gas disinformation campaign was widespread and confusing, but I'm disappointed you didn't listen to the hundreds of New Mexicans who wrote, called and came to the Roundhouse or the experts who knew what was in the bill and who would have been regulated by it (only the state's biggest polluters and not farms, ranches or hospitals). No hospital, farm or ranch in New Mexico emits even close to what the bill would have covered in rulemaking. The bill did not contain building codes and would not have regulated hospitals. In addition to the life-ruining costs paid for by individual New Mexicans, climate destruction is already blowing up our state budget. New Mexico has paid $4 billion, and rising, to deal with the immediate disasters caused by the climate crisis. Your vote rejected settled science on climate change, the financial wellbeing of our state, and individuals who are left shouldering the burden of our elected officials failing to help us. Scientists and every international scientific organization have told us repeatedly that we cannot continue to produce climate pollution at anywhere near the rates we have. New Mexico's impressive reductions have accompanied growth in our state -- including increased oil and gas production. This legislation would have provided a thoughtful and evidence-backed pathway to the critical and significant reductions necessary to save our children and grandchildren from disaster. Your vote failed me, the people of New Mexico, and your children and grandchildren. I urge you, given the chance, to support future legislation that puts the people of New Mexico above record profits for the industries that are killing us.