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New Mexico State Parks To Re-Work Fees With Aim To Improve Protection, Access

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New Mexico’s state park agency recently announced that planners are seeking public input on a revamped park access schedule. But, embedded in the announcement was a lot of information showing what a challenge it is to protect the state’s natural resources and scenic sites. The juggling act is not only.

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OriginOil and Sustainable Resources to build new Advanced Algae Center in New Mexico to support commercialization

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Sustainable Resources, Inc. SRI) will contract with OriginOil, the developer of a technology to transform algae into a competitor to petroleum, to plan and deploy a new Advanced Algae Center devoted to algae commercialization. The Center will be located on the site of the original Aquatic Species Program in Roswell, New Mexico.

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EIA: US Permian Basin oil production and resource assessments continue to increase

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The land area over the Permian Basin covers more than 75,000 square miles in 43 counties of western Texas and southeastern New Mexico. However, more than half of the rigs that have been added in the Permian are concentrated in just five counties: Reeves, Loving, Midland, and Martin counties in Texas and Lea County in New Mexico.

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New Mexico Adopts Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Program

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The New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) adopted by a vote of four to three greenhouse gas reduction regulations—called the most stringent in the US—that will reduce global warming pollutants through a regional cap on greenhouse gas emissions. New Mexico Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Regulation.

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ExxonMobil doubles Permian Basin resources to 6B barrels via acquisitions

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Exxon Mobil Corporation will more than double its Permian Basin resource to 6 billion barrels of oil equivalent through the acquisition of companies owned by the Bass family of Fort Worth, Texas, with an estimated resource of 3.4 billion barrels of resource, of which 75 percent is liquids.

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EIA: proved reserves of US natural gas established a new record; oil reserves increased by 16% at the end of 2021

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In 2021, proved reserves of natural gas set a new record in the United States, and proved reserves of crude oil and lease condensate increased, but not quite to pre-pandemic levels, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In 2021, Texas’s annual crude oil and lease condensate proved reserves increased by 12% (1.9

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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico.