The truth about textile waste

The truth about textile waste
The Fast Fashion trend is driving huge production of cheap goods with a very short life cycle with the help of online “influencers.” US consumers throw away an average of 81.5 pounds of clothing a year, most of it headed to landfills. What can you do? ...
/ Latest News, Zero Waste

Responding to the Supreme Court Decision Allowing Storage of High Level Nuclear Waste in New Mexico

Responding to the Supreme Court Decision Allowing Storage of High Level Nuclear Waste in New Mexico
Today (June 18, 2025) the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that New Mexico and Texas, and groups like the Sierra Club, did not have the right to challenge Nuclear Regulatory Commission licenses for “interim” high-level nuclear waste storage facilities in their respective states.  The NRC denied intervention for these entities in the licensing process and therefore the court claimed that the states did not have the right to challenge the license ...
/ Press Release

Hundreds of New Mexicans Thank State’s Congressional Delegation for Defending Public Lands

Hundreds of New Mexicans Thank State’s Congressional Delegation for Defending Public Lands
In a powerful show of widespread support for public lands, environmental protections, and responsible land stewardship, hundreds of New Mexicans signed onto a letter sent to the entire New Mexico congressional delegation, thanking them for their leadership in pushing back against renewed threats to public lands from the Trump administration and its Congressional allies ...
/ Land, Press Release

80+ Groups Demand BLM Halt Trump-Era Public Lands Giveaway

80+ Groups Demand BLM Halt Trump-Era Public Lands Giveaway
A powerful coalition of over 80 organizations—from Indigenous and frontline community groups to national environmental organizations, faith leaders, farmers, health professionals, scientists, and small business owners—joined thousands of individuals today in delivering a clear message to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM): stop auctioning off public lands to oil and gas corporations ...
/ Climate Change, Land, Press Release

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 ...
/ Latest News, Press Release, Water

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 ...
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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 ...
/ Land, Latest News, Press Release

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 ...
/ Climate Change, Latest News