Although 25 states have approved their own RPS, a national standard has stalled in the face of resistance from traditional coal-powered utilities and their allies in Congress.

Wind and biomass are popular in New Mexico, but the desert sun that draws millions of tourists here also makes its solar power potential the second largest in America.

So it is that the Clean Energy State's future just may lie in the south corner of the capital city, at the end of a dry road marked by a mile-long sculpture of a snake with jewelled eyes.

... Guardian

Wow, its setting an example for the rest of the country, world?! Thanks for the clips...

no one from canada will go there after what they did to our people there!

Viva New Mexico!

Actually, Kansas has multiple nicknames--the Wheat State, the Sunflower State, the Jayhawker State. I know other states have more than one as well. Sorry, but small inaccuracies like that bother me.