Join us for Sierra Club and Root Beer on Friday, March 6, our Central NM Group general meeting. Our featured speaker is the City of Albuquerque Sustainability Officer Kelsey Rader. Her presentation will include the City plans to move us to a more sustainable environment and an update on the plastic bag ban. Refreshments provided!
National Sierra Club Elections are Underway – VOTE!

In a typical year, fewer than 10% of eligible Sierra Club members vote in the Board elections and the percentage has been declining. A minimum of 5% participation is required for elections to be valid, according to our bylaws. Please vote: it provides an opportunity for all members to have a say in the Sierra Club agenda and priorities.
Statement on San Juan Generating Station recommended decisions

On Friday February 21, Public Regulation Commission hearing examiners issued recommended decisions supporting allowing PNM to exit its ownership and operation of San Juan Generating Station coal-fired power plant and allowing bond sales to recover the remaining debt in the plant, along with recovery funds for workers and the surrounding Four Corners community.
Session ends with Republicans stalling to save New Mexico from electric cars
Deadline tomorrow: Help NM slash climate-damaging methane waste
Wilderness First Aid – September 2020

The Rio Grande Chapter, in conjunction with Kirtland Air Force Base Outdoor Recreation has been offered the opportunity to convene a wilderness first aid course especially geared toward our members. This course includes both classroom and experiential learning techniques that make it fun and effective and no prior experience is required. This course is in high demand and typically fills-up months in advance.
Excursiones: Creciendo en el 2019
Network watches out for public health

Oil and gas methane emissions are at an all-time high in the Permian and San Juan Basins. Childhood asthma has doubled since 2015 to almost 50,000 cases in the state, and billions of gallons of radioactive produced water from fracking operations are being injected into wells and held in impoundment ponds while the New Mexico Environment Department studies how to safely dispose of this new hazardous fluid. Northern New Mexico Group members Denise Fort and Teresa Seamster are members of the Environmental Public Health Network, with projects in water quality and community impacts planned for 2020.