New Mexico & El Paso
Please join one of many Rio Grande Chapter outings this weekend — as always, Sierra Club outings are free and open to the public. You must contact the leader to RSVP beforehand. Thank you, and we hope to see you on
New Mexico is a test case for the utility industry’s coordinated nationwide effort to kill residential solar energy, and you just helped win another battle for solar! The latest test case in utilities’ nationwide anti-solar scheme is in Southern New Mexico, where El
Elections matter. In this day and age, we are all more or less cynical about the ability of government to do anything positive, but the fact remains that, for the environmental issues we all care about, elections do have consequences and
Game Commission to make another important decision — this time about endangered Mexican wolves — on Sept. 29 On Monday, the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter launched a radio campaign targeting Gov. Susana Martinez regarding her Game Commission’s decisions to
Bears and Cougars are part of New Mexico’s natural heritage. They are beautiful and important animals in nature. But the New Mexico Game Commission has approved the use of painful and cruel traps and snares on private land and on
New Mexico Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn testified in front of the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday regarding August’s Gold King Mine spill in the Animas River, promoting New Mexico’s management of natural resources. But Flynn’s actions at the Environment
The Sierra Club has endorsed two outstanding candidates, Pat Davis and Israel Chavez, in the Oct. 6 Albuquerque City Council election. Pat is running in District 6 to replace retiring Councilor Rey Garduño. District 6 includes the University area and
By Nellis Kennedy-Howard, Beyond Coal senior campaign representative, New Mexico A tremendous day in Farmington, New Mexico – really quite historic. On Aug. 20, more than 100 people gathered at a session hosted by the Bureau of Land Management to
Carbon emissions from burning coal are destroying our climate. Pollution from coal plants is making our air and water unsafe. At the same time, an outdated federal coal-leasing program still allows big coal companies to shortchange American taxpayers for mining
By Allyson Siwik, Gila Resources Information Project and Rio Grande Chapter Executive Committee & Rachel Conn, Amigos Bravos executive director Published in Albuquerque Journal Aug. 24, 2015 We have watched in horror and sadness as images of an orange, heavy-metal-laden plume
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