{"id":760,"date":"2005-07-27T19:37:32","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T02:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/nms-emissions-heavy\/"},"modified":"2010-09-12T11:19:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T17:19:55","slug":"nms-emissions-heavy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/nms-emissions-heavy\/","title":{"rendered":"N.M.&#8217;s Emissions Heavy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"N.M.'s Emissions Heavy; State Is Double National Average\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/375091nm07-27-05.htm\">ABQjournal: Study: N.M.&#8217;s Emissions Heavy; State Is Double National Average<\/a> By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>    New Mexicans emit twice as much greenhouse gases per capita as the national average, according to a new study commissioned by state government.<\/p>\n<p>    The gases &#8212; from power plants, oil and gas production, cars and farms &#8212; are implicated in global climate change, and the new data will form the basis for a statewide initiative to curb the emissions, state Environment Secretary Ron Curry said Tuesday. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>According to the inventory, <b>37 percent of the state&#8217;s greenhouse gas emissions come from electric generation plants; 22 percent comes from oil and gas production, and 16 percent comes out of the tailpipes of cars and trucks. Agriculture accounts for 6 percent of the emissions<\/b>, with methane belched or exhaled by cows among the largest agricultural sources.<\/p>\n<p>[mjh: and the other 19%?]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABQjournal: Study: N.M.&#8217;s Emissions Heavy; State Is Double National Average By John Fleck, Journal Staff Writer New Mexicans emit twice as much greenhouse gases per capita as the national average, according to a new study commissioned by state government. The gases &#8212; from power plants, oil and gas production, cars and farms &#8212; are implicated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/nms-emissions-heavy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">N.M.&#8217;s Emissions Heavy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco","tag-fleck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}