Don't let NM double drilling density
We need your help! Please attend the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission Hearing on Monday, Nov. 19 in Santa Fe to oppose a rule change that would allow natural-gas companies to drill twice the wells in the same space in New Mexico ...
NM environmental champs win big!
WOW! With the stunning victory for Xochitl Torres Small, the results are in, and your votes and volunteering helped environmental champions win nearly every race the Sierra Club endorsed in New Mexico! ...
Sierra Club and Root Beer: Immigration

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 ...

Endorsements for the 2018 Election
As we have seen in the past two years, the people who set - and approve - policy have a tremendous impact on our climate, water, land and wildlife. An important part of our nonpartisan mission is to endorse candidates for elected office and work to elect those candidates. Our endorsements and volunteer power make a real difference in elections. Read our endorsements for New Mexico and West Texas ...
Help stop Copper Flat's permit to pollute

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 ...

EPA: Oil and Gas Wells Can Keep on Polluting and Wasting Methane

For Immediate Release: September 11, 2018

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

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 ...

Climate Action Platform

Climate Action Platform

As we Rise at the Rio for Climate, Water Jobs and Justice on Sept 8, 2018,

our coalition of organizations and individuals are calling on elected officials and candidates to join our call to action on the climate, water, jobs and justice.  The following is our Call to Action:

Candidates

We call on all candidates for every elected office to take the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge, nofossilfuelmoney.org

Federal Government

We call on the federal government and our senators and representatives to protect the air, water, land and communities of the Greater Chaco landscape from current and further oil and gas extracting by canceling the upcoming lease sale and halting all future leasing until the Resource Management Plan Amendment is ...

What is in Chaco’s Air?

What is in Chaco’s Air?
At the Navajo Counselor Chapter, sitting at the intersection of Highway 550 and the county road to Chaco Culture National Historic Park, the air looks clean and the wind often blows strongly across the mesas and through the valleys. But for the past 3 years, residents have complained of chest pain, headaches, coughing, wheezing, sinus problems and skin and eye irritation ...