Four Corners Power Plant

New Mexico's largest electric provider wants the state's highest court to overturn a 2021 decision by regulators who rejected a proposal to transfer shares in a coal-fired power plant to a Navajo energy company.

Many decisions by New Mexico’s most powerful regulatory panel have had direct economic and environmental consequences for one corner of the state, and yet not one candidate nominated to fill the Public Regulation Commission is from northwestern New Mexico.

New Mexico's largest electric provider is appealing a recent decision by state regulators to reject a proposal to transfer its shares in a coal-fired power plant to a Navajo energy company.

New Mexico regulators have denied a request by the state’s largest electric provider to unload its shares in one of the Southwest’s few remaining coal-fired power plants by transferring them to a Navajo energy company.

Arizona Public Service Company’s plan to end all of its coal power generation by 2031 is expected to take a heavy economic toll on tribal communities.…