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Special interest appointments: Her first day in office, Governor Martinez issued an executive order halting pending or proposed regulations for 90 days and also established a Small Business-Friendly Task Force (SBFTF) to review those rules to determine whether they are proper and necessary.1 But the task force represented anything but small business; it was filled with lobbyists from companies including BP, Chesapeake Energy, Shell Rolling back the energy efficient building code: In 2010, Oil and Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold LLC.2 New Mexico adopted changes to the states building By April, the task force published a deregulatory wish list recommending that Top Industry Campaign Contributions to Gov. Martinez the state revise, repeal or rescind nearly 50 public interest rules devised to protect New Mexicans.3 Oil & Gas $1,039,660 Endangering drinking water and public health: Governor Martinez has targeted the Dairy Waste Rule, enacted to safeguard drinking water sources located near the nitrate-rich manure lagoons of factory farms. Groundwater supplies nearly all the states drinking water, and in 2010, New Mexico estimated that groundwater near roughly two-thirds of the states dairies was contaminated.4 New Mexico dairy interests opposed the drinking water protections, contending that the rule could force half the states dairies out of business.5 The dairy sector gave $88,750 to Martinezs campaign for governor, including more than $73,000 from dairy farms across New Mexico.6 Opposing local businesses and healthy foods: In New Mexico, locally produced food particularly melons, apples, chilies
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code requiring all new construction to be 20 percent more energy efficient starting in July 2011 for homes or 2013 for commercial buildings.10 The new building code was projected to save average homeowners almost $170 annually in energy costs as well as reduce the use of greenhouse gas emitting fossil fuels.11 Unfortunately, in April 2011, the Small Business-Friendly Task Force recommended that the governor roll back the Energy Conservation Code and restore the states less rigorous former building code.12
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Baker, Deborah. After six months on the job, hows she doing? Albuquerque Journal. July 10, 2011; New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez. Executive Order 2011-001, Formation of a Small Business-Friendly Task Force; Establishing a 90-Day Review Period for All Proposed and Pending Rules and Regulations. January 1, 2011 at 1-2. 2 New Mexico Secretary of State. Ethics Office. Lobbyist Disclosure Index 2011. Available at http://ethics.sos.state.nm.us/LOBBY/LOB.HTM. Accessed July 2011. New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez. List of members. Small Business-Friendly Task Force. Available at www. governor.state.nm.us/Small_Business-Friendly_Task_Force.aspx, accessed July 15, 2011. 3 State of New Mexico. Small Business-Friendly Task Force. Final report. April 1, 2011 at 8-13. 4 Longworth, John W. et al. New Mexico Office of the State Engineer. New Mexico Water Use by Categories 2005. Technical Report 52. June 2008 at 50; Holmes, Sue Major. N.M. dairy industry says new rules would ruin them. Associated Press. April 12, 2010. 5 Holmes (2010). 6 National Institute of Money in State Politics. Candidate Summary: Susana Martinez 2010 campaign for governor. 7 Food & Water Watch interview with Kathleen Gonzalez, New Mexico Food to Table. July 12, 2011. 8 New Mexico Senate Bill 63, Government Food Purchasing Requirements, www.nmlegis. gov, January 2011 at 2. New Mexico State Senate. Roll Call RCS# 321. March 9, 2011; New Mexico House of Representatives. Roll Call RCS# 3162. March 16, 2011. 9 New Mexico Legislature. 2011 Regular Session. Senate Bill 63. Current Location: Pocket Veto. Available at http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/_session.aspx?Chamber=S&LegType=B&Le gNo=63&year=11. 10 Baker, Deborah. Energy efficiency rules targeted. Albuquerque Journal. May 16, 2011. 11 eSolved, Inc. State Of New Mexico Energy Conservation Code 2009-2010 Code Update: Overview Of Process And Results. Prepared for State of New Mexico Regulation & Licensing Department Construction Industries Division. June, 2010, at 13. 12 State of New Mexico Small Business-Friendly Task Force (April 1, 2011). 1
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