Press: A wildlife emergency is brewing at the border

Link to article in NM Political Report, 10/16/2019.
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“Roadless Rule” Town Halls across New Mexico

Trump’s Forest Service has moved to repeal the Roadless Rule, an essential piece of environmental regulation that protects 45 million acres of pristine land (1.6 million acres in New Mexico) from road construction and the inevitable logging, mining, and extraction that follows. Plan ...

Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter Statement on Gutting of Federal Roadless Rule

On August 18, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced the U.S. Forest Service had filed a proposed rule to rescind in its entirety the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule ...

Stop Trump from Desecrating the Greater Chaco Landscape

The Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter is joining our Pueblo, Diné, and Tribal neighbors as well as other environmental and community groups in opposing Trump’s plan to expose the Great Chaco Landscape to oil and gas drilling ...

Summer 2026 Outings

Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter outings for July - September 2026. We look forward to seeing you outside! ...

New Mexico modernizes oil, gas industry bonding, cleanup rules, now among nation’s strongest

The New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission voted on July 1 to reform outdated oil and gas bonding and cleanup rules, adopting some of the strongest safeguards in the country to prevent orphan wells and ensure oil and gas corporations pay ...

NM Water Commission Caves to Industry, Will Make Rule Reversing 11-Month-Old Fracking Wastewater Discharge Ban

Contacts: Tannis Fox, Western Environmental Law Center, 505-629-0732, fox@westernlaw.org Rachel Conn, Amigos Bravos, 575-770-8327, rconn@amigosbravos.org Dale Doremus, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter, 505-795-5987, doremuswater@gmail.com Today, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) accepted a rulemaking petition filed by an ...