New Mexico New Mexico Greenhouse Gas Greenhouse Gas
Emissions Reduction Emissions Reduction ProgramsPrograms
April 2008April 2008
Governor Richardson on Climate Governor Richardson on Climate ChangeChange
Set state GHG reduction targets & established stakeholder group (CCAG) in 2005– 2000 levels by 2012– 10% below 2000 by 2020– 75% below 2000 by 2050
• 69 CCAG recommendations, 67 unanimous• December 2006 Executive Order
What we have accomplishedWhat we have accomplished
• GHG inventory• Climate Change Advisory Group
Recommendations• VISTAs• Chicago Climate Exchange Member• Reports (oil and gas/cars)• Mandatory GHG emissions reporting rule• Adopted CA clean car standards
What we are working on What we are working on
• Implementation of greenhouse gas reporting rule
• Coordination of clean cars regulation
• Oil and Gas exploration, production, processing and gathering greenhouse gas emissions reporting protocol
• Anti-Idling
• Tax credits for energy generation facilities
Statewide InitiativesStatewide Initiatives
• Western Climate Initiative • The Climate Registry• Lead-by-example reductions in state
greenhouse gas emissions• Carbon sequestration study and rules• Green building codes• Climate Change Action Implementation
Team
Roles and ResourcesRoles and Resources
• Who: mostly Air Quality Bureau
• Resource needs: much more than we have
• Funding sources: using NSR permit fees fund
• Scope of effort: Expanding exponentially…(we live in fear of another EO)
Climate Change Action TeamClimate Change Action Team
• Membership includes: EMNRD, Tax and Rev., DOT, Regulation and Licensing, GSD, State Engineer, Economic Development, Finance and Administration
• Joint efforts: support of energy efficiency initiatives through EMNRD, limited coordination with DOT, tax regulation with Tax and Revenue
Western Climate InitiativeWestern Climate Initiative
• Likely need some statutory change for at least parts of the program
• Air staff are monitoring and observing, we know we’ll be tagged with much of implementation
• Legislature granted one position to work on greenhouse gas initiatives starting summer 2008
Benefits of WCI membershipBenefits of WCI membership
• Coordination with other states on mandatory reporting rule implementation
• Coordination with other states on cap and trade issues
• Commiserate with other Air Directors regarding the difficulty and challenges of the tasks we face
Prospects for upcoming federal Prospects for upcoming federal actionsactions
• Who can guess?• Benefits to states from proposed bills
(funding, reduce leakage, smaller states can draw from other states’ expertise)
• May pre-empt state and regional cap-and-trade
• May allow states to tailor state program to remaining issues after cap and trade
• Issues with EJ
How GHG emissions tie into our How GHG emissions tie into our traditional CAA worktraditional CAA work
• Four Corners region (ok, at least NM) ozone nonattainment designation very likely
• Many oil and gas reductions for ozone precursors will also address ghg emission reductions
• Some ability to integrate inventory for criteria pollutants and GHG emissions
Questions?Questions?