New Mexico deserves a future beyond fossil fuels

The same political leadership in New Mexico that claims climate leadership is also the one expanding extraction.

By: Feleecia Guillen

Outlets: Source New Mexico

Published: April 24, 2026

Words: 733

Last Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago

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In New Mexico, the frontlines of the climate crisis are not just environmental — they are geopolitical.

The oil extracted here doesn’t stay here. It moves through pipelines, ports and trade routes — circulating through global markets and shaping conflict, instability and the terms of international power. Extraction at home and wars abroad are part of the same system.

As the world’s first-ever global diplomatic conference on phasing out fossil fuels gets underway in …

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