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El Paso Electric’s Newman Gas Plant is a massive polluter of the air Southern New Mexicans breathe.

Now, El Paso Electric wants to build another 228-megawatt fracked-gas generator at the plant, just over the Texas border from Chaparral, a New Mexico colonia that already suffers dangerous levels of air pollution.

This gas expansion would make our air even more dangerous, set back our climate efforts and discourage clean-energy development in the region for decades.

The Public Regulation Commission’s hearing examiner has recommended rejection of EPE’s permit to build this gas generator, pointing out that El Paso Electric failed to consider the Energy Transition Act’s requirements that will require the plant to close by 2045 and because the expansion is unnecessary and ...

You elected 63 of the Sierra Club's 77 endorsed candidates. Thank you for everything you did to elect a historic slate of women and candidates of color, including the nation's second female-majority legislature and the nation's first all-woman-of-color U.S. House delegation ...

With 3 million acres of public land currently leased to oil and gas companies for exploration and drilling, New Mexico is the largest producer of oil from federal lands in the country. The policies governing how these lands are managed and leased haven’t been updated for a century, and companies are getting a sweetheart deal to develop under the Trump administration’s “energy dominance” regime ...

The Diné (people) of Tó’hajiilee Chapter have an opportunity to get drinking-quality water to their community of approximately 2,000 families and children. We need your help to make this happen ...