The installation of Donald Trump as president in January 2025 led everyday Americans to organize protests throughout the nation. Rio Grande Sierrans took to the streets in support of public lands, clean air and water, and social injustice. While the chapter had much to celebrate on the state and local level, attacks from the federal government kept our people focused on deregulation and policy rollbacks ...
Move to Revoke Chaco Buffer Zone
On Oct. 30, the Bureau of Land Management sent notification to tribal governments that it would begin the process of revoking the buffer ...
The upcoming year and its 30-day legislative sessionh will be last for Governor Luján Grisham. This administration, legislature and grassroots supporters have achieved so much, from decriminalizing abortion to establishing free pre-K, all while stabilizing impacts from the boom-and-bust fossil fuel economy and protecting us from global collapse. Here’s what to expect in the upcoming session ...
D. Reed Eckhardt
Editor, The Rio Grande Sierran
dreed1969@msn.com After more than two hours of impassioned public comment, the Water Control Commission reversed its earlier decision to begin rulemaking aimed at nullifying a ban on the discharge of toxic oil and gas wastewater into New Mexico surface and ground water. The 7-4 vote on Nov. 13 resets a process that was launched by the oil and gas industry after the discharge of waste liquids outside of the industry was prohibited ...
Editor, The Rio Grande Sierran
dreed1969@msn.com After more than two hours of impassioned public comment, the Water Control Commission reversed its earlier decision to begin rulemaking aimed at nullifying a ban on the discharge of toxic oil and gas wastewater into New Mexico surface and ground water. The 7-4 vote on Nov. 13 resets a process that was launched by the oil and gas industry after the discharge of waste liquids outside of the industry was prohibited ...
Senate Republicans Block Methane Protections, Leaving NM Exposed to Texas Pollution
Senate Republicans voted against a resolution that would have stopped the Trump administration from delaying critical methane pollution standards — a decision that leaves New Mexico vulnerable to pollution from Texas’ unregulated oil and gas fields ...
Greater Chaco Coalition Condemns Further Sacrifice
Response to BLM letter sent to Tribal governments, stating the BLM would initiate a process to revoke an administrative mineral withdrawal for future oil and gas drilling within a 10-mile buffer around Chaco Culture National Historical Park ...
At the Water and Natural Resources Interim Committee hearing in Santa Fe, scientists, economists, and policy leaders told lawmakers that New Mexico is paying a steep price for rising temperatures from higher insurance premiums and shrinking water supplies to the mounting costs of rebuilding after fires and floods ...
The Water Quality Control Commission met to consider water watchdogs’ motions to disqualify commissioners who may have voted under duress from the governor's office to advance an oil and gas industry-written rule allowing discharge of toxic oil and gas wastewater in New Mexico ...
New Mexicans Demand Stronger Oil & Gas Cleanup Rules
On October 23, advocacy groups and community members delivered 890 signatures and comments to the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) in support of proposed rule changes to modernize outdated oil and gas bonding and cleanup requirements ...
Don’t Kill Wolves – Let Them Migrate
By Mary Katerine Ray,
Rio Grande Chapter Wildlife Chair Despite years of cross-fostering genetically valuable lobo pups from captive litters into wild wolf dens, scientists have determined that the overall genetic diversity of the wild wolf population has declined each year for the last four years. The Mexican wolf was nearly eradicated before recovery efforts were begun. The genes of only seven wolves founded the entire Mexican wolf population alive today. It is a limited genome from which to draw, ...
Rio Grande Chapter Wildlife Chair Despite years of cross-fostering genetically valuable lobo pups from captive litters into wild wolf dens, scientists have determined that the overall genetic diversity of the wild wolf population has declined each year for the last four years. The Mexican wolf was nearly eradicated before recovery efforts were begun. The genes of only seven wolves founded the entire Mexican wolf population alive today. It is a limited genome from which to draw, ...
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