Please join us for an animated discussion on immigration at this month’s Sierra Club and Root Beer. Meet people engaged in confronting the results of today’s immigration policies –- Albuquerque hands on!
We invite you to take a walk through a mosaic of issues relating to current immigration policies.
Sanctuary in our city, direct service to our immigrant community, Dreamers, DACA, ICE’s uninvited presence in our court system, asylum-seekers presenting themselves at the border and being put in detention …
Who is welcoming our neighbors? Who is providing them with needed legal information to understand how to navigate the immigration system?
Local volunteers, including grassroots leaders, attorneys, and activists will give us a glimpse of their work at our local ...
THIS WEEK: New Mexico Copper wants a permit to dump 8 billion gallons of contaminated waste every year, threatening our water supply.
The New Mexico Environment Department is holding a public hearing on Discharge Permit-1840 this whole week — Sept. 24 through 28 — beginning each day at 9 a.m. at the Ralph Edwards Auditorium on Fourth Street in Truth or Consequences.
This permit for Copper Flat Mine outside Hillsboro would allow New Mexico Copper Corp. to discharge 24 million gallons per day of contaminated wastewater that “may move directly or indirectly into the groundwater” and “may contain water contaminants or toxic pollutants elevated above the standards” of New Mexico’s Clean Water Act.
Public comments will be taken between expert testimony any day of the hearing, but time ...
For Immediate Release: September 11, 2018
Contact: Camilla Feibelman, camilla.feibelman@sierraclub.o
Agency Guts Leak-Reduction Safeguards; Citizens Protest
Today, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed weakening the EPA’s Methane Rules, which have been in force for almost a year, for the oil and gas industry. When first proposed under the Obama Administration, more than 27,000 New Mexicans commented in favor of these rules meant to stop oil and gas waste and pollution.
These common-sense safeguards limit the release of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from oil and gas infrastructure, and also protect communities from other harmful pollutants released alongside methane, such as benzene and volatile organic compounds. Residents throughout New Mexico are directly affected by this pollution and ...
