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Pollution from oil and gas facilities can harm the health of those who live near them. That's disproportionately Indigenous people in NM, a new map shows.
Days before President Joe Biden planned to host an international Climate Change Summit, and was expected to renew the U.S.’ goals to mitigate pollution, New Mexico environmental groups joined a national coalition in urging the administration to aim to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas by 65 percent from 2012 levels by 2025.
Biden invited at least 40 world leaders to the summit planned for Thursday and Friday, and many expected he would call for the U.S. to target a 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2030.
This would signal a shift for U.S. climate policy from the administration of former-President Donald Trump, who many feared put industry needs ahead of environmental concerns and pulled the country out of the Paris Climate Accord.