New Mexico lawmakers are trying to steer hundreds of millions of dollars to climate funding after an effort to codify the state’s emissions targets ran into Democratic opposition.
The Clear Horizons Act — which sought to enshrine into law Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s goal of net-zero emissions by 2050, along with intermediary emissions targets — has stalled in the Senate Finance Committee after two Democrats joined with Republicans to table the bill before it could reach the floor.
“It’s a little too rapid for me,” Democratic Sen. George Muñoz said last week during a hearing on the bill. Muñoz chairs the Finance Committee.
Sponsored by Senate President Pro Tem Mimi Stewart, the legislation already had cleared a different committee on natural resources.
