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    Month: July 2025

    The EPA Delays Implementation of Critical Methane Pollution Controls, Jeopardizing the Health and Air Quality of Thousands of New Mexicans

    The EPA Delays Implementation of Critical Methane Pollution Controls, Jeopardizing the Health and Air Quality of Thousands of New Mexicans

    For Immediate Release July 30, 2025 Contact: Antoinette Reyes, Antoinette.Reyes@sierraclub.org The EPA Delays Implementation of Critical Methane Pollution Controls, Jeopardizing the Health and Air Quality of Thousands of New Mexicans Las Cruces, N.M. – Yesterday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin issued

    Ellen Loehman July 30, 2025October 30, 2025 Read more

    Trump Rollback of “Endangerment Finding” puts New Mexicans at Risk

    Trump Rollback of “Endangerment Finding” puts New Mexicans at Risk

    In a direct assault on the movement to mitigate the climate crisis, the Trump administration will formally propose a plan to rescind the EPA’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding.

    Ellen Loehman July 30, 2025January 5, 2026 Read more

    Summer 2025 Outings

    Summer 2025 Outings

    Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter outings for July-September 2025. We look forward to seeing you outside!

    Ellen Loehman July 30, 2025October 22, 2025 Read more

    Mexican Wolves: Steps Forward, Steps Backward

    Mexican Wolves: Steps Forward, Steps Backward

    This spring marks the 11th year of wolf pup cross-fostering. Seventeen Mexican wolf pups were transferred from captive dens into wild dens to increase the wild population’s genetic diversity. Now the Fish & Wildlife agency has released good news about the wolf Asha.

    Gary Kowalski July 25, 2025 Read more

    Victory for ban on Produced Water Discharge to New Mexico’s Ground and Surface Waters

    Victory for ban on Produced Water Discharge to New Mexico’s Ground and Surface Waters

    Over the course of the last year and a half, the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter and Amigos Bravos, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center’s Tannis Fox, took part in a critical rulemaking for New Mexico’s clean water supply. A Water Quality Control Commission proceeding addressed whether to prohibit the discharge of “produced water” …

    Gary Kowalski July 25, 2025July 25, 2025 Read more

    The truth about textile waste

    The truth about textile waste

    The Fast Fashion trend is driving huge production of cheap goods with a very short life cycle with the help of online “influencers.” US consumers throw away an average of 81.5 pounds of clothing a year, most of it headed to landfills. What can you do?

    Ellen Loehman July 2, 2025July 20, 2026 Read more

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