New Mexico’s Green New Deal: Why are supporters hiding more than 300 documents?

October 14, 2019

If you’re proud of what you’ve done, there’s no reason to hide. So why is one of the sponsors of New Mexico’s Green New Deal hiding over 300 emails from the public?

Power The Future sent in a public records request wanting to take a look at the creation of New Mexico’s controversial Energy Transition Act (ETA.) Called the state’s “mini Green New Deal,” we’ve already uncovered how New Mexico’s Energy Secretary worked with her former environmental employer on the law. Next, we wanted to see if the same groups were also the only ones granted access to sponsors in the Legislature, but it looks like we’ll never know.

The response we received speaks volumes. There were 346 emails that fit the description of our request, but the public isn’t allowed to see them.

It all leads to one simple question: Why?

New Mexicans deserve to know who was peddling influence around the ETA and the sponsor of the bill shouldn’t be allowed to hide the facts.