Most of us live in an urban-wildland interface so it’s no longer possible for bears to have their own habitat and humans to have ours. We have to take the right steps to reduce human/bear interactions.
Kids climate program, chapter hit funding goal
By Mike Hopkins, Global Warming Express board The July fundraiser with The Global Warming Express results in 250% expansion of GWE Program! As you may know, The Global Warming Express (GWE) and the Rio Grande Chapter hosted a joint fundraising event
NM backs weak federal wolf plan
The NM Game Commission is considering a weakened lobo recovery plan and will announce their decision in November.
Climate-saving methane rules need you, again
The methane rule is under attack yet again. Submit your comments before November 6.
NM volunteers visit Capitol Hill
A delegation of Rio Grande Chapter volunteers visited New Mexico’s congressional delegation in Washington D.C. in late September to share stories about living near the border and growing up in the Four Corners oil, gas and coal extraction economy.
Endorsed city candidates advance
All three of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter’s endorsed candidates in the October 3 Albuquerque municipal election either won outright or advanced to a runoff. But we still have runoffs scheduled for November 14.
Students share EPA’s importance on campus
Our interns have been raising awareness at UNM and NMSU about the importance of the EPA and its impacts on our state and campuses.
Dairy group is industry watchdog
The New Mexico Environment Department is proposing changes to the water-quality regulations that contain the dairy rule. While we agree with some of the proposed changes, there are some changes to the protocols the agency uses to administer the rule that are troubling.
Sentinels test Santa Fe River for hormones
By Irina Goldstein, Water Specialist and Teresa Seamster, Northern New Mexico Group chair Sierra Club’s Water Sentinel program is one of several grassroots initiatives that help to supplement federal and state efforts to monitor national surface-water resources. As part of
PNM proposes 50 MW of new solar facilities
In the renewable-energy plan PNM is required to produce every year, New Mexico’s largest electric utility has proposed to build 50 megawatts of solar, upgrade and add energy output to the New Mexico Wind Energy Center contract and upgrade and add energy to the geothermal facility near Deming to meet its 2020 legal requirement for 20% renewable energy.