Stuff you need to know, 7.25.22

“Freshman nabs lead GOP role on Oversight’s Environment panel”
by Timothy Cama, Greenwire, E&E News
July 22, 2022

New Mexico Rep. Yvette Herrell is the new top Republican on the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Environment Subcommittee.

Herrell, a first-term Congress member, succeeds Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) in the spot. She would likely become the subcommittee chair if Republicans take the House majority in this year’s elections and the party keeps the current subcommittee structure.

The position gives Herrell an opportunity to be a top critic of the Biden administration’s aggressive environment and climate change policies.

“As a lifelong New Mexican, Representative Herrell understands the importance of preserving our environment for all to enjoy and ensuring Americans’ access to affordable, clean energy to power their homes and fuel their cars,” Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the full committee’s ranking member, who appointed her to the job, said in a statement.

“The Biden Administration has waged war on domestic energy production and Representative Herrell is fighting to protect the Americans whose jobs and livelihoods rely on this industry,” he said.

“Reduced to a Trickle, River Managers Brace for More Drying”
by Susan Montoya Bryan, New Mexico correspondent for the AP
The Paper, July 22, 2022

Triple digit temperatures and a fickle monsoon season have combined with decades of persistent drought to put the Rio Grande in its most precarious situation yet.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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One comment

  1. what “aggressive environment and climate change policies”?
    what ““war on domestic energy production”?
    fossil fuels are being extracted just as much as & more than before
    this woman is delusional or lying
    it’s very sad that we cannot trust our representation to be accurate
    i guess it’s not hot enough yet for some people

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