New Mexico & El Paso
The Legislature holds shorter, 30-day budget-focused sessions on even years that are restricted to legislation that has an impact on the state budget and bills the governor puts on her call. That leaves less room for some of the legislation focusing on wildlife and land protections that Sierra Club members and our allied groups usually support, but several promising energy bills are likely to need your activism.
On Dec. 8, the Trump Administration’s Bureau of Land Management finalized a one-year delay of a rule that would plug oil and methane leaks from oil and gas operations. The agency said the rule “may be rescinded or significantly revised in the near future.”
The Sierra Club is sponsoring a fundraiser for Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief and Film Screening with Puerto Rican Director Carla Cavina
February 3, 2pm-5pm
Tickets $10 available at the door
Excursiones a la Naturaleza de Nuevo Mexico is the Rio Grande Chapter’s Spanish language outings program. Join us for several outings in the bosque and petroglyphs this winter and early spring.
Across the country (and world) the Women’s March will be touring the nation to register voters, engage underserved communities, and put force behind women and progressive candidates in swing states. Let’s make sure the nation and world hears us as we commit to bringing even more #PowerToThePolls!
2018 is our 55th anniversary. Throughout the year, in the Sierran and on our website, we’ll be looking back at some of the events, issues, victories and struggles that shaped New Mexico and El Paso.
2018 is our 55th anniversary. Throughout the year, in the Sierran and on our website, we’ll be looking back at some of the events, issues, victories and struggles that shaped New Mexico and El Paso. Flash back to 2006 from a Leadership Development Project workshop.
Celebrating the Rio Grande Chapter’s 55 years! In 2002, we filed a lawsuit against PNM for atmospheric pollution of the San Juan power plant. In 2017, PNM shut down half of this coal-fired plant.
John Buchser is the former longtime Rio Grande Chapter chairman, and he remains out Water Team chair and has been a member of the Rio Grande Chapter for decades. Question: What is your position in the Rio Grande Chapter? John Buchser: Water issues chair Q: How
In the most recent blueprints for end of course exams, New Mexico students won’t be tested on monopolies being forced to dismantle during the early 20th century, the racial and ethnic conflict as people moved from farms to cities, or civil-rights leaders such as Rosa Parks and Malcolm X.