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In response to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s decision to prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, members of the Greater Chaco Coalition called on the Biden administration to end all new federal fossil fuel leasing across the country. The coalition also called on the administration to do more to live up to its promises to develop a landscape-level approach for resource management in the Greater Chaco region and address the climate crisis ...

On May 24, advocates delivered a letter signed by over 200 local and national groups, businesses, unions, and institutions to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field office in Albuquerque urging the agency to phase out oil and gas leasing ...

For immediate release: May 9, 2023

Despite New Mexico’s recent passage of a law prohibiting the storage of high-level nuclear waste here, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Tuesday issued a license to Holtec International to store the entirety of the nation’s high-level nuclear waste in our state. 

In response, community leaders and experts issued the following statements: 

New Mexico Commissioner of Public Lands Stephanie Garcia Richard: “This is a bad idea, full stop. Placing a nuclear storage facility in the heart of oil and gas operations is a recipe for ecological disaster and unnecessarily puts New Mexicans at risk. While I understand the need to store our nation’s nuclear waste, the world’s most active oil- and gas-producing field is ...

That’s three Sierra Club leaders three days in a row! Great job, John, Norman and Camilla!

Lead, governor: Climate action can’t wait

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_view/lead-governor-climate-action-cant-wait/article_7bad2a60-e52c-11ed-baf0-fb56d639783a.html

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