MLG announces extreme eco-Marxist agenda at ‘climate summit’ as New Mexicans protest

On Monday, far-left eco-Marxist groups and public figures gathered at the Capitol in Santa Fe to talk about the “climate change” conspiracy theory put on by House Speaker Brian Egolf (D-Santa Fe). As previously reported exclusively by the Piñon Post, Egolf’s “New Mexico Climate Summit” is costing New Mexico taxpayers at least $14,134. 

At the event, scandal-ridden alleged serial groper Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced radical job-killing proposals she aims to ram through the 2022 Legislative Session that will not only cripple New Mexico’s energy economy but will harm the poor in significant ways. 

These proposals include “net-zero” greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, “clean fuel standards,” and the introduction of a hydrogen hub act. In 2021, the clean fuel standards bill died after it did not achieve final passage on the House floor. The bill would have resulted in at least a 20-cent gas tax that would harm the poorest New Mexicans, already struggling in Lujan Grisham’s economy.

“If you don’t have that framework in statute, it’s too easy to not work as diligently or as quickly or as effectively — to not have future commitment,” Lujan Grisham said. “This should be indicative of the work we’re going to do to preserve future generations.”

“For a small state with some pretty interesting challenges, we are, in fact, leading the country in any number of environmental strategies, policies, and statutory frameworks at reducing our emissions and increasing our renewable energy,” the Governor added.

Outside, protesters gathered from across New Mexico to oppose the job-killing proposals being implemented in the state. Signs read things like “MLG’s Green New Deal Kills” and “You Are The Carbon They Want to Reduce.” At the protest organized by activist Marcie May and others, Piñon Post editor John Block, GOP secretary of state candidate Audrey Trujillo, GOP lieutenant gubernatorial candidate Ant Thornton, GOP former U.S. Senate candidate Elisa Martinez, and others spoke about how eco-left policies are killing jobs in America.

Egolf briefly came outside, but once confronted by the Piñon Post about the job-killing Green New Deal, also known as the “Energy Transition Act”, he scurried away and did not give an opportunity for questions. State Sen. Harold Pope (D-Bernalillo) was asked about his support for the Green New Deal, and he said he supports it. When asked about the jobs that will be killed, he said, “It creates jobs.” When pressed further, he also scurried away. 

Fringe enviro-Marxist groups Somos Un Pueblo Unido, Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, Natural Resources Defense Council, OLÉ, Center for Civic Policy, Western Resource Advocates, Environmental Defense Fund, Conservation Voters New Mexico, NM Wild, Power4NewMexico, the Angelica Foundation, and the Energy Foundation are all sponsors of the summit.

Pro-energy group Power The Future’s communications director Larry Behrens said, “New Mexico is a national leader in unemployment and rising electric bills so it’s no surprise Governor Lujan Grisham wants to jet off to Scotland and leave her record behind. Additionally, it is the height of hypocrisy for the Governor to hop on a plane instead of appearing virtually. New Mexicans deserve better than a Governor who depends on fossil fuels to travel and for her budget but then undermines our energy workers at elitist resorts among her friends.”

Lujan Grisham is set to fly to Glasgow for a climate summit, in which she will join world leaders to discuss the climate change conspiracy theory.