New Mexico properly prepared for President Barack Obama's efforts to cut greenhouse gases from power plants and won't be among the many Republican-led states expected to fight the plan, state Environment Department Secretary Ryan Flynn said Monday.
Flynn told The Associated Press that because New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez had previously brokered an agreement, the state is in position to adapt to the new rule.
"I think we can look back at the decisions we made three years ago and say they paid off," Flynn said.
Martinez moved to comply with the rule to allow the state to craft its own path to compliance. Flynn said New Mexico could have faced a federally imposed implementation plan. That brokered agreement targeted haze-causing pollution at the San Juan Generating Station, but carbon dioxide emissions will also be reduced by half as a result...
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The Martinez administration went along with the President on ObamaCare, and we've seen how that worked out. Time will tell on this one.
If NM doesn't join with the other states in challenging the rule, then they are in effect saying they support the rule. Don't Sec. Flynn and the Governor understand that?
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