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Pemex Burns $2 Billion of Natural Gas in Three Years

By KELIN DILLON According to new estimates from the the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Tracker 2022 Monitoring Report, Mexico has burned and effectively wasted approximately $2 billion worth of natural gas over the past three years, as state-owned oil company Petróleos Mexicanos’ (Pemex) lack of functional storage infrastructure has made it impossible to save and store the natural gas

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AMLO Criticizes US for Preferring Electric Cars

By MARK LORENZANA Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), in his morning press conference on Monday, June 13, claimed that the price of gasoline is skyrocketing in the United States mainly because the U.S. government has stopped investing in oil due to its preference for electric cars. “The United States has a serious problem because a gallon of gasoline,

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Mexico Already Favoring Dirty Fuel Sources over Clean

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Although Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform bill — which would favor the use of contaminating fossil fuels over cleaner renewable alternatives — has yet to pass Congress, the state-run Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) is already prioritizing the distribution of electric power from its own plants over private sources, even

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AMLO’s Electricity Reform Could Cost 261 Billion Pesos

By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF If Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s (AMLO) controversial electricity reform — which would prioritize the use of state-run carbon-based fuels over private, clean-sourced energy — passes, the federal budget could lose up to 261 billion pesos in 2022, according to the  Center for Economic and Budgetary Research (CIEP), Mexico’s top independent thinktank. In

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Mexico Lags in Paris Agreement’s Environmental Standards

By KELIN DILLON Five years after Mexico entered the international Paris Agreement, which seeks to counteract climate changes and reduce countries’ environmental impact, with 195 other nations from around the world, Mexico has faltered in its own promised participation, continuing to favor fossil fuels over clean energy and following other environmentally unfriendly policies. While the Paris Agreement sought to generate

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