Q Nationally, we're having this conversation about taking a strategic deregulatory approach to make it easier to build a wide variety of clean energy resources. How have you navigated regulation in New Mexico to both ensure the cleanliness of the oil and gas sector as much as possible, but also to make it easier to build and deploy a wide variety of resources? How have you navigated that in New Mexico?
A Yeah. On the regulatory part, you're right. There's a, there's a big deregulatory agenda going on, and that's creating regulatory uncertainty. And, you know, if there's one thing that industry likes, and we know that in government, is that certainty is, is the most powerful thing that you can provide from, from a government standpoint. And when we look at that pendulum swinging between federal administrations pushing in either direction, here's New Mexico. Steady, certain, And, and moving forward to say that we are unwavering that we're going to pursue our climate goals. We're unwavering that we're going to collaborate with the oil and gas industry and other stakeholders to build out the most, uh, restrictive and pragmatic oil and gas regulations. So we've put all that into our state law, into our state rules, and we've insulated ourselves in New Mexico by having certainty through state law that That's been in place now since the governor started in 2019 and we've just continued to, to chip away and build that certainty for the regulated industry or for, for industry in general. I think also the fact that we have what, what I would call is like sort of anti-backsliding measures. The things that we've codified into our state law gives industry certainty that Administration to administration here at the state level, we're going to continue to have that certainty. So you know when…
AI assessment note: “we've insulated ourselves in New Mexico by having certainty through state law”