Today, New Mexico’s Environmental Improvement Board voted to approve the final rules of the Clean Transportation Fuel Program – New Mexico’s new program that will create a statewide “carbon intensity” standard for transportation fuels, and a marketplace to buy, trade and sell carbon credits to meet that standard.  

Food & Water Watch Factory Farm Organizing Manager Alexa Reynaud released the following statement: 

“New Mexico has taken seriously the reality that programs like the Clean Transportation Fuel Program can perversely incentivize factory farms to pollute. NMED and the EIB have attempted to address these concerns by adding some vital guardrails into the program. Unfortunately, the risk remains for New Mexico’s program, and more programs like these are popping up every year across the country with even more incentives for factory farms to inundate our communities with even more pollution. No climate programs should reward factory farms for polluting.”