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.
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.
Drones record Chaco fracking sites
The River Healers have sent drones to multiple fracking sites in the Greater Chaco Area impacted by explosions, fires, spills and methane.
Changes threaten NM monuments
The leaked report revealed recommendations for shrinking four monuments, showing disregard for more than 2.8 million public comments, 98% of which urged the administration to maintain current and future protections.
Sierra Club & (Root) Beer – Friday, November 3
Join us this Friday for our November Sierra Club and Root Beer as Rebecca Sobel of WildEarth Guardians discusses the fracking threats in greater Chaco Canyon.
Trip report – Ancho Rapids/Frijoles hike
10/14/2017 From leader Aku Five hikers had a PERFECT day on Saturday for a hike from the Ancho Rapids trailhead to Lower Frijoles Falls in Bandelier, and back. After a brief side visit to Ancho Rapids, they hiked through White