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For Immediate Release: June 24, 2020

Contact: Camilla Feibelman, camilla.feibelman@sierraclub.org, 505.715.8388

On Wednesday, Public Regulation Commission hearing examiners presented recommendations for replacing the retiring San Juan Generating Station, including 100% renewable energy and battery storage. 

The portfolio proposed by the Coalition for Clean and Affordable Energy (CCAE) locates 100% renewable energy and battery storage in the same school district as the San Juan plant, in addition to two large solar and battery projects in nearby McKinley and Rio Arriba counties.  The hearing examiners recommended this option as the best for compliance with the Energy Transition Act’s emphasis on investment in the community and lowest environmental impact. For solely emphasis on price, the examiners included another alternative with 80 MW less gas ...

This weekend, June 19-21, our Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter is joining the Movement for Black Lives in a Juneteenth mobilization throughout New Mexico. Please join this national and international call for racial justice, equality and an end to police brutality.

Juneteenth (June 19) celebrates the day that Black communities, who remained enslaved two years after the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas, finally received the news that they were free on June 19,1865. This Juneteenth is a rare moment for all of us to proclaim in one voice that Black Lives Matter and that we won’t tolerate anything less than justice for all Black lives, justice that has been withheld for too long.

These past several weeks of protest have illustrated that ...

Our hearts are heavy with the deep grief and pain that our Black and Brown families, friends, partners, and communities continue to experience in this country as a result of systemic racism and police brutality.. Sierra Club is on an ongoing journey to become better allies and accomplices in the movement toward anti-racism ...

The entire Pecos River system of watersheds, river, tributaries and floodplain could be re-contaminated due to a recent application by the Australian based New World Cobalt Mining Company that has a small limited liability group, Comexico, LLC, filing for exploratory rights in the old Tererro Mine area ...