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The Showdown in New Mexico: Can State Cap-and-Trade Regulations Survive a Hostile Administration? / Greg Wannier, Deputy Director, Climate Law Blog (Columbia Law School), 21/01/2011http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2011/01/21/the-showdown-in-new-mexico-can-state-cap-and-trade-regulations-survive-a-hostile-administration/One result of the 2010 midterm elections was the replacement of  several climate-receptive state governors with more skeptical  administrations in governor mansions around the country.  As a result,  the continuation of many state and regional climate activities has been  thrown into question.  Nowhere is that dynamic more evident than in New  Mexico, where incoming governor Susana Martinez recently refused to  publish state regulations passed under former governor Bill Richardson  that would implement statewide greenhouse gas reductions starting in  2013...