New Mexico environment leaders push back at EPA’s proposed climate change rollback
Demonstrators gather outside the Clyde Hotel on Sept. 14, 2023 as part of the Climate Strike organized by the Youth United for Climate Crisis Action. YUCCA and other New Mexico environment and conservation organizations said they would continue efforts to lower emissions which fuel climate disasters. (Photo by Anna Padilla for Source New Mexico) by Danielle Prokop , Source New Mexico July 31, 2025 New Mexico climate groups struck a defiant tone in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to dismantle federal authority to reduce one of the drivers of climate change: greenhouse gases. On Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in Indianapolis that the agency would scrap what’s called the “endangerment finding” established in 2009 under the Obama Administration. In that finding, the agency determined climate change was a threat to human health, which allowed the EPA the power to regulate greenhouse gases. After the proposal is published, the EPA will sol...
