From Navajo rugs to outdoor adventures, art or a cabin retreat, this is a great opportunity to support the Rio Grande Sierra Club’s work regardless of where in New Mexico or West Texas you live.
Action Auction
Tell NM Environment Department: No use of fracking wastewater outside oil fields!
You may know that drillers inject water underground to release oil and gas during fracking. The industrial waste that comes back up is called “produced water,” and it is contaminated both by the chemicals that companies put into it and by the minerals released from the ground. Tell New Mexico Environment Department: Prohibit reuse of fracking wastewater outside the oil fields.
Press: NM funds progressive policy through fracking
Link to article at NBC News The moral dilemma of funding our state via oil and gas revenues.
Right to Harm: film screening November 9
Right to Harm is a film exposé on the public health impact of factory farming across the United States, told through the eyes of residents in five rural communities.
Rio Grande Green: Fundraising Report
Thank you New Mexico and West Texas members, donors and supporters of the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club! You continue to be amazing!
Farewell to a great crew of activists
Thank you, Rio Grande Chapter chair, David Coss.
US moves back, NM forward on methane
The public has until November 25 to submit comments about rollbacks that eliminate the direct regulation of methane. In New Mexico, this would mean that 4,700 new and existing oil and gas wells would no longer have to reduce their methane emissions, endangering our climate and our families’ health.
NM to adopt clean-car rules
In September 2019, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico will join 14 other states in adopting clean-car standards requiring new cars sold here to emit fewer greenhouse gases.
Albuquerque goes electric
On a warm September morning, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller drove a shiny new blue Chevy Bolt into Civic Plaza, accompanied by five Global Warming Express members.
Zero Waste Tour to Rio Grande Compost Facility
The Zero Waste team toured the Rio Grande Compost Facility on Albuquerque’s west side.