By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Mexico now ranks in first place among Latin American countries when it comes to air pollution caused by electricity generation, according to Cepalstat, a data and statistics platform of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. Mexico emissions from electricity are 2.2 times higher than those of Brazil, three times those of
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By KELIN DILLON As Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electric reform continues to receive pushback, including the recent rejection of the proposal by 18 members of the Institutional Revolution Party (PRI), the executive and his own party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) have acquiesced to being open toward changes to the reform. Despite this newfound receptivity toward
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By KELIN DILLON Officials from Mexico’s Business Coordinating Council (CCE) have come forward to dismiss the Mexican government’s purported lies surrounding its proposed electric reform, saying in a statement on Tuesday, Oct. 12, that their intentions “are guided by ideology and not by technical expertise and rigor.” The CCE’s head Carlos Salazar Lomelín pointed to Secretary of Energy Rocío Nahle
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s National Action Party (PAN) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), which, along with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) make up the Va Por México coalition, called out the PRI for not presenting further roadblocks to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) electric reform alongside them in a private meeting held on Monday, Oct. 4. The
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By KELIN DILLON Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial reform to The country’s electric industry received further roadblocks to its implementation following a second judge’s additional suspensions to the law on Wednesday, March 17, much to the chagrin of López Obrador. Judge Rodrigo de la Peza López Figueroa ruled in favor of 11 amparos (a legal term in
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By KELIN DILLON Following controversial changes in Mexico’s electrical law, rammed through Congress on orders from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), the government-owned Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) will reportedly use plants up to 41 years old, with no plans to replace them. The newly passed law changes the order in which each kind of generated energy is uploaded to
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