“With the gutting of federal methane protections, we need strong state rules more than ever. We are grateful that the Lujan Grisham administration is moving forward with safeguards and addressing the climate crisis, even while facing the urgency of the pandemic. The Trump administration leaves us utterly exposed on both fronts. We are reviewing the state rules in detail and will engage our members to stand up for the strongest rules possible to protect public health, our communities and the climate.”
— Camilla Feibelman, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter director
Contact: Camilla.Feibelman@sierralcub.
These past weeks of nationwide reckoning with racism have illustrated more clearly than ever that if we are to be advocates of climate change, we must advocate for racial equity and confront racism.
Part of Sierra Club’s mission is to fight for safe and healthy communities. This also includes safety from police violence. The call for defunding the police means shifting massive spending from police practices that do not keep us safe — and specifically terrorize and target communities of color — and reinvesting it in a shared vision of community safety that actually works. This will not happen overnight. It will happen through a thoughtful, deliberate and participatory process. We want to see real systemic change that will make a ...
