Correction: Air Pollution Sanctions-New Mexico story

Jun 29, 2023, 4:48 PM | Updated: Jun 30, 2023, 11:50 am

FILE - Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. New Mexico oilfield and air quality regulators on Thursday, June 29, 2023, announced unprecedented state fines against a Texas-based oil and natural gas producer on accusations that the company flouted local pollution reporting and control requirements by burning off vast amounts of natural gas in a prolific energy-production zone in the southeast of the state. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)
Credit: ASSOCIATED PRESS

(AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — In a story published June 29, 2023, about pollution fines against an oil company, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the compliance and enforcement section chief at the air quality bureau of the New Mexico Environment Department. It is Cindy Hollenberg, not Cindy Hollman.

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