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
Climate-saving methane rules need you, again
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
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
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.
BLM ready to auction more of Chaco

In August, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington Field Office notified Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye that it intends to auction off 25 more parcels in Greater Chaco for fracking. These parcels are unnervingly close to the 10-mile buffer that protects Chaco Culture National Historical Park.





