Rio Grande Chapter

You are invited to join the launch of CAVU’s multi-media project, UNEARTHED: The Real Story of Oil and Gas in New Mexico. WHAT:  Short film screening and panel discussion moderated by NPR’s Tara Gatewood. WHEN:   Thursday, November 16th, 2017, 6:30 PM public reception, 7:00 program begins. WHERE:  Lensic Theater, 211 West San Francisco Street, Santa Fe TICKETS: Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at Lensic.org.  505-988-7050 More about UNEARTHED. The year-long initiative in designed to educate and engage the public in a productive, depoliticized ...

By Denise Fort, Research Professor, UNM School of Law
Chapter Energy Committee chair New Mexicans are well aware that we have the dubious honor of contributing to an enormous methane hot spot that hovers over the Four Corners Area. Methane is a pernicious greenhouse gas and a pollutant that affects health at ground level. And lost methane means lost revenues, because royalties and taxes would otherwise be owed on it. The Obama Administration is moving forward with methane regulation. The ...

Join the League of Women Voters of New Mexico‘s annual workshop on Saturday, December 9 at the State Capitol. Learn tips from legislators and a professional about how to approach legislators, craft an effective message and plan your time wisely. League members will also provide tips on speaking for LWVNM. Saturday, December 9, 9:30 am to Noon
New Mexico State Capitol, Room 322 Featuring: Senator Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, District 25
Senator Sander Rue, R-Albuquerque, District 23
Jim Jackson, Chief Executive Officer of ...

Most of us live in an urban-wildland interface so it's no longer possible for bears to have their own habitat and humans to have ours. We have to take the right steps to reduce human/bear interactions.  ...

By Mike Hopkins, Global Warming Express board The July fundraiser with The Global Warming Express results in 250% expansion of GWE Program! As you may know, The Global Warming Express (GWE) and the Rio Grande Chapter hosted a joint fundraising event on July 21 at the Hotel Santa Fe. Attended by more than 150 Sierra Club members and GWE supporters, the event helped push fundraising over the $30,000 threshold for the chapter and GWE to continue working together. Through the generosity ...

The NM Game Commission is considering a weakened lobo recovery plan and will announce their decision in November ...

The methane rule is under attack yet again. Submit your comments before November 6 ...

A delegation of Rio Grande Chapter volunteers visited New Mexico's congressional delegation in Washington D.C. in late September to share stories about living near the border and growing up in the Four Corners oil, gas and coal extraction economy ...

All three of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter's endorsed candidates in the October 3 Albuquerque municipal election either won outright or advanced to a runoff. But we still have runoffs scheduled for November 14 ...

Our interns have been raising awareness at UNM and NMSU about the importance of the EPA and its impacts on our state and campuses ...