Since 2011, Southwestern Public Service has been charging eastern New Mexico families who invest in solar a hefty monthly fee that no one else pays, and that they must pay no matter how little energy they use. This is unfair and it needs your action! ...
photo of rooftop photovoltaics
Ask your elected officials to include solar on their capital projects lists. In the absence of action at the federal level, we must push climate action on the local level ...
Comments: NM VW Trust Fund
The Rio Grande Sierra Club submitted comments to the NM Environment Department urging them to use our share of the VW settlement to reduce NOx pollution by supporting electric vehicles ...
Chaco's surprise reprieve 
In an unanticipated move, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke cancelled a March lease auction of 4,454 acres in Greater Chaco to oil and gas companies ...
Las Cruces votes for 100% clean energy by 2020
On April 2, The Las Cruces City Council passed a resolution to obtain 25% of the city's electricity from renewable energy by 2022, 30% by 2030, and 100% by 2050 ...
New Mexico approves 1,200 MW of wind energy
New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission on March 21 approved Southwestern Public Service's massive 1.2-gigawatt wind-energy project in New Mexico and west Texas ...
Hundreds of Thousand Oppose Evisceration of BLM Methane Rule
As of midnight April 23, over 400,000 people registered overwhelming opposition to the Trump Administration's evisceration of the BLM methane rules that would have drastically cut oil and gas waste and pollution ...
Millions In Taxpayer Revenues Go Up In Flames
As the sun set April 7, passersby were able to make out an image projected onto the building at 300 San Mateo, at the corner of San Mateo and Central. The image prominently featured a ticker of the value  of natural gas being wasted by industry on public and tribal lands in New Mexico, totaling more than $100 million ...