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July 2026
Friday, July 10 – Nambe Lake hike. The trail is 6.5 miles roundtrip with 2,000 ft elevation gain. The majority of the trail runs up along the creek, making this a very pleasant experience. When you get to the alpine lake, you will be stunned how beautiful it is. Well worth the hike up! The group will accommodate a range of hiking paces. There will be an option to eat and rest at leisure or take some of that break to hike around the lake before hiking back.
Wednesday, July 15 – Green Book Club. Join the Green Book Club to read and ...
The following list does not include candidates we have endorsed, but who do not have an opponent in the upcoming election.
US Congress
House District 1: Melanie Stansbury
House District 2: Gabe Vasquez
House District 3: Teresa Leger Fernandez
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State Offices
Governor: Michelle Lujan Grisham
Lieutenant Governor: Howie Morales
Secretary of State: Maggie Toulouse Oliver
Attorney General: Raúl Torrez
Land Commissioner: Stephanie Garcia Richard
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Constitutional amendements
Constitutional amendment 1 – YES
Constitutional amendment 2 – YES
New Mexico House of Representatives
District ...
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 ...
Below are Rio Grande Chapter and regional group candidate statements for the 2020 chapter and group Executive Committee elections. If you are a member, you may click here to vote. You must be a Rio Grande Chapter member to vote. If you have a joint membership, each member may vote once.
Chapter Executive Committee (three candidates for three spots)
Anita Gonzales
A native New Mexican, Anita was born in Las Vegas, NM, to the Lopez family of Villanueva, NM, and the Gallegos family of Las Vegas, NM. A middle child, Anita moved between Las Vegas and Albuquerque and graduated high school from West Mesa High School. After completing the majority of her degree at Texas A&M University, she returned home ...
June 2 New Mexico Democratic primary
District 38 (Las Cruces and south Doña Ana County): Carrie Hamblen
The Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter is proud to endorse our friend and community leader Carrie Hamblen for the Senate District 38 Democratic nomination.
As president of the Las Cruces Green Chamber of Commerce, Carrie helped lead efforts to win Organ Mountains Desert Peaks designation as a National Monument.
She has served Southern New Mexico as morning news anchor and operations manager at KRWG public radio, as an NMSU instructor, and as board president of the Mesilla Valley Community of Hope and member of PFLAG Las Cruces and Southern NM PRIDE.
Her opponent is Mary Kay Papen, who has blocked New Mexicans from ...
For immediate release: Jan. 21, 2020
Contact:
Jessica Keetso, To Nizhoni Ani, jkeetso@yahoo.com,
Laurie Weahkee, Native American Voters Alliance, laweahkee@gmail.com
Camilla Feibelman, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter director, camilla.feibelman@sierraclub.
On Tuesday, several Public Regulation Commission members listened to comments from dozens of New Mexicans asking for a full transition away from dirty San Juan coal electricity to renewable energy.
Tuesday’s PRC hearing addressed what resources should replace the San Juan coal-fired electricity that PNM plans to stop using in 2022. The commission has separated that case from the one regarding whether it will allow PNM to exit the coal plant and how the exit will be financed.
New Mexicans from all over the state asked the commission to require ...
