Panel makes recommendations on NM regulations - BusinessWeek

Bruce Frederick, an attorney with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, acknowledged that New Mexico can't solve the problems associated with climate change by itself but rescinding the new emissions rules would send the wrong message to other states and the federal government.

"It would send the message that waiting is OK, that waiting is the thing to do," he said. "On the other hand, if these regulations stay on the books and they start to become enforceable, we want to look to exporting those things to other states and hopefully get the federal government to notice. That's how things get done at the federal level."