September 2023 hike with Big Brothers/Sisters
The New Mexico ICO program will be hiking on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023 with Big Brothers/Sisters. We’ll hike La Cieneguilla Trail southwest of Santa Fe. We’re meeting at 8:45 and leaving at 9:00 a.m., and we should be back no later than 3:00. Those interested should contact Raymond N. Greenwell at matrng@hofstra.edu ...
Clean Cars, Trucks standards save lives, money
BY NM CLEAN AIR COALITION Update! Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on July 3 announced that her administration would propose Clean Cars and Trucks rules this month to the Environmental Improvement Board. The administration filed the petition on Friday, July 7. A broad coalition of New Mexico climate, environmental-justice and business groups is advocating for the state to adopt Advanced Clean Cars and Trucks standards by the end of 2023 to save lives and money and create climate solutions in New ...
September 2023 hike with Santa Fe Youth Shelters
The New Mexico ICO program will be hiking on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023 with Santa Fe Youth Shelters. We’ll hike the Grasshopper Canyon Trail off of I-25 on the way to Las Vegas, NM. We’re meeting at 8:45 and leaving at 9:00 a.m., and we should be back no later than 3:00. Those interested should contact Raymond N. Greenwell at matrng@hofstra.edu ...
GREAT NEWS: NM Supreme Court affirms rejection of PNM’s coal-plant transfer
For immediate release: July 6, 2023 **See live updates of our press release here. On Thursday, the New Mexico Supreme Court affirmed the Public Regulation Commission’s order denying PNM’s application to transfer its interest in the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant to the owner of the coal mine supplying the plant. The court rejected all of PNM’s arguments and affirmed the commission’s decision in its entirety. Sierra Club had intervened on the side of the commission after strongly advocating at ...
Will you outlive your garbage?
By Carol P. Chamberland, Central New Mexico Zero Waste Recently a friend sent me a disturbing chart on the decomposition rates of various types of garbage. I looked further into the matter and found it’s worse than I thought. Way worse. America is a wasteful country. Daily, we generate four pounds of waste per person. Annually, that’s more than 220 million tons of trash, three times the global average. We use 1.6 million barrels of oil per year just to produce plastic ...
Wondering what in the world a heat pump is, and which kinds are best for New Mexico? Want to know why waiting until the end of the year is a bad time to install solar in New Mexico? Concerned about health-harming gases in your kitchen? Want an EV, but don’t like the choices available for purchase? Use the 350NewMexico website for these and more answers ...
Camilla is interviewed on Telemundo about contamination by PFAS ...
Secretary Haaland Protects Chaco Canyon From Oil, Gas Drilling
In response to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s decision to prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, members of the Greater Chaco Coalition called on the Biden administration to end all new federal fossil fuel leasing across the country. The coalition also called on the administration to do more to live up to its promises to develop a landscape-level approach for resource management in the Greater Chaco region and address the climate crisis ...
In the news: Cannon Air Force Base looking to let public weigh in on contamination cleanup efforts
On May 31, KRQE News aired a news article on PFAS contamination in the Clovis area, with comments by Rio Grande Chapter Director Camilla Feibelman. ...
