Climate Advocates Voces Unidos (CAVU)

Storytelling and Community Engagement that Supports Local Solutions

Climate Advocates Voces Unidas (CAVU) uses visual storytelling and community engagement to support local solutions to the global climate problem. As a nonprofit working across the North American West, CAVU uniquely blends science and personal stories to reconnect people with each other and the planet they live on. We believe elevating diverse voices is an antidote to prejudice, partisanship, and cynicism when working on environmental and social justice issues.

Our mission is to engage individuals, communities, and leaders to take ownership of and action on climate-related issues in their communities through a multifaceted process using education initiatives, media, scientific research, and advocacy tools. In 10 years, CAVU hopes to be at the forefront of a movement that has effectively solved the climate crisis by fundamentally shifting our society’s relationship to the natural world.

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Bill #	Title	Sponsors	CVNM Position	Year
HB 9	Climate Solutions Act more Summary: HB 9 called for the convening of a sustainable economic development subgroup to develop a strategic plan to support attaining net-zero emission levels by 2050. It also established statewide greenhouse gas emission reduction targets. Outcome: HB 9 died in the House State Government, Elections & Indian Affairs Committee.	Brian F. Egolf Angelica Rubio Nathan P. Small Melanie A. Stansbury Mimi Stewart	Support	2021
HB 15	Sustainable Building Tax Credit more Summary: HB 15 extends and expands the sustainable building tax credit and adds incentives involving LEED. The existing tax credit is applied to construction begun prior to 2021 and completed by the end of 2021. Outcome: HB 15 passed the House 48-22 and the Senate 29-6. The bill was signed by the Governor on April 6, 2021.	Tara L. Lujan Javier Martínez Kristina Ortez Linda Serrato	Support	2021
HB 26	Exclude Greenfields from Certain Taxes more Summary: HB 26 excluded development on undeveloped lands, like forest land, from the Tax Increment for Development Act and the establishment of related Tax Increment Development Districts (TIDD). Outcome: HB 26 was tabled and died in the House Local Government, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee.	G. Andrés Romero	Support	2021
HB 50	Private Right of Action for Certain Statutes more Summary: HB 50 enabled private parties to file civil lawsuits for violations of environmental statutes. Outcome: HB 50 passed out of committee but died on the House calendar.	Georgene Louis	Support	2021
HB 51	Environmental Database Act more Summary: HB 51 creates a centralized, map-based, searchable website to provide various geographic data, information on public health, wildlife status, and other interrelated environmental and energy industry data in order to enhance transparency and interagency cooperation. Outcome: HB 51 passed the House 44-25 and the Senate 29-12. The bill was signed by the Governor on April 7, 2021.	Gail Chasey Georgene Louis Mimi Stewart	Support	2021
HB 76	EIB Permit Denial for Poor Performance more Summary: HB 76 allows the Environmental Improvement Board to revoke permits for projects if companies refuse to disclose information, misrepresent material facts, have prior court convictions, operate without a permit, or have a previous revocation. Outcome: HB 76 passed the House 42-26 and the Senate 23-15. The bill was signed by the Governor on April 6, 2021.	Christine Chandler Linda Serrato	Support	2021
HB 200	Water Trust Board Projects & NM Unit Fund more Summary: HB 200 prevents NM Unit Fund monies from being used on any diversion of the Gila River and redirects funding to meet water supply demands in the southwest water planning region of New Mexico. Outcome: HB 200 passed the House 43-24 and the Senate 26-15. The bill was signed by the Governor on April 5, 2021.	Matthew McQueen Nathan P. Small Siah Correa Hemphill Mimi Stewart	Support	2021
HB 206	Utility Affordability & Relief Act more Summary: HB 206 prevented utility services from being disconnected for customers impacted by Covid-19, created a bill relief program, and funds for low-income household energy efficiency efforts. Outcome: HB 206 passed the House 39-31, but died in the Senate Finance Committee.	Joanne J. Ferrary Kristina Ortez Andrea A. Romero Angelica Rubio Melanie A. Stansbury	Support	2021
HB 265	Natural Resources & Lands Protection more Summary: HB 265 offered technical fixes to the Natural Lands Protection Act and Natural Heritage Conservation Act to allow state agencies to directly acquire and manage lands, and conservation and restoration-focused nonprofits to apply directly for restoration and conservation funding. Outcome: HB 265 passed the House 40-29, but died in the Senate Judiciary Committee.	Kristina Ortez	Support	2021
HB 299	Improvement Special Assessment Act more Summary: HB 299 authorized special assessment programs to be authorized to support energy efficiency, renewable energy, water conservation, resiliency, and other implements. It would have also provided more financial tools for homeworkers to make households more energy efficient. Outcome: HB 299 passed the House 42-26, but died in the Senate Judiciary Committee.	Nathan P. Small	Support	2021
SB 8	Local Government Air Quality Regulations more Summary: SB 8 allows state agencies and local boards to adopt rules that ensure a maximum ozone concentration of 95 percent of the national ambient air quality standard for ozone. It also allows the state to adopt rules that are stronger than current federal standards. Outcome: SB 8 passed the Senate 23-15 and the House 39-29. The bill was signed by the Governor on April 8, 2021.	Linda M. Lopez Peter Wirth Christine Chandler Nathan P. Small	Support	2021
SB 11	Clean Fuel Standard Act more Summary: SB 11 established a state clean fuel standard, and set specific reduction targets for greenhouse gas emissions. Outcome: SB 11 passed the Senate 25-14, but died on the House calendar.	Mimi Stewart Nathan P. Small	Support	2021
SB 32	Wildlife Conservation & Public Safety Act more Summary: SB 32 bans the use of non-essential traps, snares and wildlife poisons on public lands in New Mexico. Outcome: SB 32 passed the Senate 23-16 and the House 35-34. The bill was signed by the Governor on April 5, 2021.	Roberto J. Gonzales Brenda G. McKenna Christine Chandler Matthew McQueen	Support	2021
SB 84	Community Solar Act more Summary: SB 84 increases access to renewable energy resources by creating a subscriber-based community solar program. Outcome: SB 84 passed the Senate 27-14 and the House 44-3. The bill was signed by the Governor on April 5, 2021.	Linda M. Lopez Elizabeth Stefanics Patricia Roybal Caballero	Support	2021
SB 86	Use of Water for Oil & Gas Operations more Summary: SB 86 would have made it illegal for oil and gas operators to spill produced water, wastewater produced in oil extraction. Outcome: SB 86 passed the Senate Conservation Committee but died on the calendar of the Senate Judiciary Committee.	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez Elizabeth Stefanics	Support	2021
SB 103	Restricting Use of Neonicotinoid Pesticide more Summary: SB 103 would have reduced the use of neonicotinoid pesticides, which are toxic to pollinating insects like bees, by banning the use of it in certain crop production. Outcome: SB 103 passed out of committee but failed in the Senate 18-20.	Mimi Stewart	Support	2021
SB 112	Sustainable Economy Task Force more Summary: SB 112 establishes a task force that will develop a strategic plan and identify ways to develop a sustainable economy with diversified revenues, especially for communities dependent on natural resource extraction. Outcome: SB 112 passed the Senate 25-16 and the House 40-25. It was signed by the Governor on April 5, 2021.	Mimi Stewart	Support	2021
SB 149	Prohibit New Fracking Licenses more Summary: SB 149 would have halted the issuing of new state fracking permits. Outcome: SB 149 passed the Senate Conservation Committee but died on the calendar of the Senate Judiciary Committee.	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez Patricia Roybal Caballero	Support	2021
SB 155	Energy Transition Act Changes more Summary: SB 155 would have amended the Energy Transition Act (ETA) in ways that bring uncertainty into the securitization process, and negatively affected bond rates. These amendments are not needed, and would have hindered the ETA. Outcome: SB 155 was tabled in the Senate Conservation Committee.	Antoinette Sedillo Lopez Elizabeth Stefanics Bill Tallman	Oppose	2021
SB 419	Narrow Landowner Animal Takings more Summary: SB 419 would have narrowed the conditions for landowners taking or killing animals on private lands causing livestock or crop depredation, and requires state agencies to offer additional interventions. Outcome: SB 419 passed the Senate Conservation Committee, but died in the Senate Finance Committee.	Jeff Steinborn Mimi Stewart	Support	2021
SJR 3	Environmental Rights, CA more Summary: SJR 3 would have created a constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment for the people of New Mexico Outcome: SJR 3 passed the Senate Rules Committee, but died in the Senate Judiciary Committee.	Harold Pope Antoinette Sedillo Lopez William P. Soules Joanne J. Ferrary	Support	2021

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