2018 Rio Grande Chapter Endorsements: Federal, N.M. Statewide

Read the Rio Grande Sierra Club endorsements for the 2018 statewide New Mexico races ...
Sacred Land, Sacred Water: Confluences in the Rio Grande Valley

View the full length documentary about the story of science and citizens working together to resist the oil and gas lobby’s efforts to pass a fracking-friendly ordinance in Sandoval County, New Mexico - threatening the sole drinking water aquifer for over 800,000 residents of the greater Albuquerque area from Cochiti Lake to Belen ...
Sierra Club & Root Beer – Friday, October 5

Please join us on Friday, October 5 from 6-8 p.m to celebrate the art of Natalie Villwock-Witte. Natalie draws inspiration from the beauty around her ...
Meet the ExComm: Shannon Romeling

Shannon is the newest member of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter Executive Committee and is a full time employee of Amigos Bravos. As Projects and Foundations Coordinator, she is responsible for researching, writing, submitting, and tracking proposals and reports regarding grants from foundations, government agencies, and other contractual funders. She is also responsible for any project related work delegated to her by the ED or Projects Director. Her current projects include water sampling, river otter monitoring, and outreach/educational events ...
Trump Administration Guts Second Oil and Gas Waste and Pollution Rule in a Week

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rolled back its Methane Waste Rule just seven days after the Trump administration gutted EPA rules to reduce methane pollution ...
Trip report – Excursiones at the Oxbow

On Saturday, September 22, we visited the sculptures that were created after an accidental fire burned 100 acre of bosque fifteen years ago. We leisurely reached the river, admiring ducks, listening to birds, learning about the old cottonwoods that due to water shortage and climate change, will not be able to reach the water table ...
Help stop Copper Flat’s permit to pollute

THIS WEEK: New Mexico Copper wants a permit to dump 8 billion gallons of contaminated waste every year, threatening our water supply. The New Mexico Environment Department is holding a public hearing on Discharge Permit-1840 this whole week — Sept. 24 through 28 — beginning each day at 9 a.m. at the Ralph Edwards Auditorium on Fourth Street in Truth or Consequences. This permit for Copper Flat Mine outside Hillsboro would allow New Mexico Copper Corp. to discharge 24 million gallons per day of contaminated wastewater ...
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