Last Sunday, New Mexico House Minority Leader Jim Townsend, a former energy executive, complained in a guest column in this paper that the hydrogen hub bill I sponsored in the last legislative session had “no measurable environmental benefit.” When did Townsend, R-Artesia, become so concerned about climate change?
Setting aside how disingenuous Townsend’s argument may be, it is also incredibly short-sighted and factually incorrect. Hydrogen offers tremendous environmental and economic potential to the people of New Mexico. My hope is we can harness that power for good, but reimagining New Mexico’s energy future is going to require looking beyond our own noses.
The bill I introduced last session would have offered incentives to producers of clean hydrogen energy, capitalizing on our state’s existing energy infrastructure in order to…
Hydrogen can deliver good jobs and climate solutions for NM
