Rio Grande Chapter

The American Lung Association ranks El Paso-Las Cruces at No. 12 on a list of the most ozone-polluted metropolitan areas in the United States. The EPA lists El Paso County on its 'non attainment' list for ozone pollution. So why is the state of Texas requesting an exemption? ...
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Partially delayed and accompanied by drama and uncertainty, the last operating stack at San Juan Generating Station in Waterflow, N,M., burned its last ton of coal in the early morning of Sept. 29. Read local residents' reactions ...
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Roper Construction has appealed the NM Environment Department denial of a permit to build a concrete plant. Local residents oppose the plant. The hearings are October 18-20 ...
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Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club - endorsements for 2022 general election at the federal level ...
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Rio Grande Sierra Club hikes for October through December 2022 ...
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The New Mexico ICO program will be hiking on Saturday, November 5, 2022 with Santa Fe Youth Shelters. We plan on hiking at Galisteo Basin Preserve. 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 ...
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State and local endorsement listings authorized and paid for by The Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club Political Action Committee.  Congressional endorsement listings paid for by Sierra Club Independent Action, sierraclubindependentaction.org, and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
 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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In 2017, majority owner and operator Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) announced that the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station was too expensive to operate and that the last two of the plant’s four units would be retired in 2022, rather than operating until 2053. On-the-ground communities and advocates had long since called attention to the plant’s expense as well as its damage to health, air and our climate. In 2019, New Mexico passed the Energy Transition Act (ETA) ...
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The New Mexico ICO program will be hiking on Saturday, October 8, 2022 with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Santa Fe. We plan on hiking the Bayo Benches Loop in Los Alamos. 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 ...
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The Los Lunas Village Council voted to “table indefinitely” the Niagara Bottling corporation's request to increase their water draw from the Albuquerque Basin aquifer from 285 acre-feet/year (92+ million gallons/yr) to 700 acre-feet/year (228+ million gallons/yr). At a time when New Mexico is in a severe drought and the aquifer is not being recharged with surface water, we need elected officials to be good stewards of our most precious and finite resource: Our water.  ...
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