Court Filing Targets New Mexico’s Energy Transition Law
“Environmentalists have lined up behind the shift to renewable energy required by the state’s energy transition act, but some are challenging language in the law that they say derails due process and eliminates standards of regulatory review meant to protect customers,” reports Susan Montoya Bryan in KRQE’s Politics – Government.
“New Energy Economy and Citizens for Fair Rates and the Environment filed a brief this week with the state Supreme Court.”
“Legal wrangling has been ongoing since the state adopted the landmark legislation in 2019. Aside from mandating more renewable energy, the law includes a financing mechanism that supporters say is necessary for the 2022 closure of a major coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico.”
