How the oil and gas industry is trying to hold US public schools hostage

Fossil fuel interest groups are telling New Mexicans: let us keep drilling or the state's education system will collapseThe oil and gas industry wants to play a word-and-picture association game with you. Think of four images: a brightly-colored backpack stuffed with pencils, a smiling teacher with a tablet tucked under her arm, a pair of glasses resting on a stack of pastel notebooks, and a gleaming school bus welcoming a young student aboard."What do all of these have in common?" an April 6 Facebook post by the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association (NMOGA), asked. "They are powered by oil and natural gas!" Continue reading...