Water Quality Control Commission adopts rule banning discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters

Water Quality Control Commission adopts rule banning discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters
The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) adopted a rule that prohibits the discharge of “produced water” to New Mexico’s ground and surface waters ...
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House Budget Bill Would Repeal Critical Program to Reduce Methane Pollution Impacting New Mexico and Other Oil and Gas Producing States

House Budget Bill Would Repeal Critical Program to Reduce Methane Pollution Impacting New Mexico and Other Oil and Gas Producing States
The House Energy and Commerce Committee released its portion of the federal budget reconciliation bill that will harm Americans in a variety of ways from gutting Medicaid to slashing programs that protect clean air and water. This legislation includes a repeal of the Methane Emissions Reduction Program’s (MERP) funding and delays the implementation of its Waste Emissions Charge for 10 years ...

Third Annual Member Appreciation Picnic

Third Annual Member Appreciation Picnic
Calling all Sierra Club members and friends for our Third Annual Member Appreciation Picnic. When: Saturday, June 14th, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Where: Capulin Spring Picnic Site in the Cibola National Forest ...

Getting Outside As a Way To Influence Climate Views

Getting Outside As a Way To Influence Climate Views
Many of us are unsure how to communicate with climate deniers these days. There’s still one arena where we can communicate in a friendly way – on a hike or outing. We don’t lecture on the trail, but some participants bring things up and it’s appropriate to briefly address them ...

Sierra Club Statement on the Reintroduction of Federal Legislation to Protect Chaco Canyon 

Sierra Club Statement on the Reintroduction of Federal Legislation to Protect Chaco Canyon 
Senator Ben Ray Lujan and Representative Teresa Leger Fernandez reintroduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, which would permanently ban new federal mineral leasing within a 10-mile buffer of Chaco Culture National Historical Park ...
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Trump goes after EPA methane pollution  

Trump goes after EPA methane pollution  
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has decided to formally reconsider the Endangerment Finding of 2009, which allows the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Public land threats under another Trump administration

Public land threats under another Trump administration
In his short time in office, President Trump has issued a flood of executive actions threatening gains in climate policy, renewable energy development, and environmental protection. These threats are especially evident in Executive Order 14154, “Unleashing American Energy." ...
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Reforming the State Wildlife Department and Commission after 10 years

Reforming the State Wildlife Department and Commission after 10 years
It has taken almost a decade of advocacy, coalition building and meetings to produce a three-part bill that covers the oversight, mission and funding needs of the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish ...
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Chapter brings students into fight against climate change

Chapter brings students into fight against climate change
The Chapter is bringing on new grassroots activists with service learning programs in Albuquerque schools. For example, through our Land, Water and Wildlife Day and Climate Crisis Day at the Roundhouse during the legislative session ...
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How to still achieve 30×30 in the Land of Enchantment

How to still achieve 30x30 in the Land of Enchantment
In late August 2021, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order to protect New Mexico’s lands, watersheds, wildlife and natural heritage to help put America on the path to protecting 30 percent of our land by 2030. We check on the progress ...
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