In New Mexico, natural gas transporter goes to the mat over $47.8M fine

New Mexico has spent $225,000 in staff time fighting Targa over emission infractions, some that the company reported itself.

By: Jerry Redfern, Capital & Main

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: March 3, 2026

Words: 2,232

Last Updated: 1 week, 1 day ago

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On Jan. 6, 2025, Congress certified the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States, triggering what has become a wide-ranging dismantling of the federal government’s environmental enforcement apparatus under his second administration.

On the same day, Targa Northern Delaware, LLC, a subsidiary of Targa Resources, filed a full-court-press defense against New Mexico’s Environment Department in a case over alleged air pollution violations going back years. It’s a case …

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