San Juan Basin fossil fuel industries keep polluting, even as they fade away

It's time to launch a land-healing and restoration economy

📈 Data Dump/Hydrocarbon Hoedown 📊

An oil and gas well and the San Juan Generating coal power plant in 2022, just a few months before the coal plant was shuttered and demolished. The area is now home to a utility-scale solar plant, with two more on the way. Jonathan P. Thompson photo.

The San Juan Basin in northwestern New Mexico was once one of the bus…