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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Rural Co-Ops & the Energy Transition Act, Indian Child Welfare Act & Firefighter Shortage
Description: This week on New Mexico in Focus, correspondent Megan Kamerick sits down with Albuquerque Journal business reporter Kevin Robinson-Avila to discuss his in-depth series on The Energy Transition Act. The ETA, signed into law this year by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, requires all local utilities to get half of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030 – prompting a shakeup among rural electric cooperatives, which serve more than 200,000 people in New Mexico, and with the wholesale supplier where cooperatives buy their power.
Gene Grant and The Line opinion panel discuss the court case that again questions th...