By Camilla Feibelman, Rio Grande Chapter director
You’ve read it here more than once. Oil and gas operations throughout the state are wasting natural gas they extract from our public lands.
Methane — the key component of natural gas that also happens to be a powerful greenhouse gas — is leaked, vented or flared throughout the oil and gas drilling, transport and storage processes. As part of the Paris Climate Agreement, the Obama Administration passed rules at the EPA and BLM that would slow this waste, protect health, reduce climate change and brought more royalties into the state treasury.
That these methane rules (against all odds) are still in effect is thanks to you. The Trump Administration has done its ...
Celebrating Lease-sale deferral, pressing for permanent protections and planning
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Santa Fe — Dozens of Greater Chaco advocates rallied in front of the Bureau of Land Management state office in Santa Fe Wednesday to claim victory over last week’s announcement that land slated for auction near Chaco Culture National Historical Park would be deferred until further action. Impacted community members delivered resolutions from Navajo Nation Chapters and Pueblos and more than 200,000 public comments pressing for a moratorium on fracking in the region, for environmental and public-health protections, and for meaningful consultation and consent from tribes.
“We are thankful that Senators Udall and Heinrich and Representatives Michelle Lujan-Grisham and Ben Ray Lujan stood up for ...
