For Immediate Release: September 11, 2018
Contact: Camilla Feibelman, camilla.feibelman@sierraclub.o
Agency Guts Leak-Reduction Safeguards; Citizens Protest
Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed weakening the EPA’s Methane Rules, which have been in force for almost a year, for the oil and gas industry. When first proposed under the Obama Administration, more than 27,000 New Mexicans commented in favor of these rules meant to stop oil and gas waste and pollution.
These common-sense safeguards limit the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas infrastructure, and also protect communities from other harmful pollutants released alongside methane, such as benzene and volatile organic compounds. Residents throughout New Mexico are directly affected by this pollution and ...
As we Rise at the Rio for Climate, Water Jobs and Justice on Sept 8, 2018,
our coalition of organizations and individuals are calling on elected officials and candidates to join our call to action on the climate, water, jobs and justice. The following is our Call to Action:
Candidates
We call on all candidates for every elected office to take the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, nofossilfuelmoney.org
Federal Government
We call on the federal government and our senators and representatives to protect the air, water, land and communities of the Greater Chaco landscape from current and further oil and gas extracting by canceling the upcoming lease sale and halting all future leasing until the Resource Management Plan Amendment is ...
