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?