New Mexico & El Paso
The Greater Chaco Coalition (Frack Off Chaco) reaffirms its unwavering commitment to safeguard the culturally significant Greater Chaco Landscape. The Coalition is voicing its concerns over the proposed bill that threatens to nullify the Biden administration’s administrative withdrawal, and hinder the progress made through the Honoring Chaco Initiative.
New Mexico’s wildlife management agency is throwing caution to the wind by ignoring sound science and the state’s worsening climate threats, as they call for unsustainable and unjustifiable levels of bear and cougar trophy hunting. Game officials have doubled down on permitting trophy hunters to kill New Mexico’s rare and iconic black bears and cougars—864 black bears and 563 cougars annually—all with the aid of radio-collared hunting hounds—for each of the next four years.
Conservation Voters New Mexico applauds President Joseph Biden for visiting New Mexico and the greater Southwest to tout his climate and conservation achievements and reaffirm his administration’s commitment to a just energy transition. His visit comes ahead of the August 16th anniversary of the signing of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). He was joined by Governor Michaell Lujan Grisham, Senator Martin Heinrich, and Senator Ben Ray Luján. He was also joined by the CEO of Arcosa Wind Towers in Belen, a small town about 30 minutes south of Albuquerque, where the event was held.
As we leave summer behind (and hopefully the heat) we find ourselves with an array of actions to help do our part to curb the intensity of climate change that is so ever present in our lives.
Rio Grande Sierra Club hikes and outings for July-September 2023
June 27, 2023: T J Trout interviews Miya King Flaherty and Mario Attencio from the Torreon Chapter of the Navajo Nation about Chaco Canyon and it’s importance both culturally and environmentally on News Radio KKOB.
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Camilla is interviewed on Telemundo about contamination by PFAS.
June 12, 2023, Native America Calling episode on President Biden’s 20-year ban on new oil and gas leases surrounding Chaco Canyon.
In response to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s decision to prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of the Chaco Culture National Historical Park, members of the Greater Chaco Coalition called on the Biden administration to end all new federal fossil fuel leasing across the country. The coalition also called on the administration to do more to live up to its promises to develop a landscape-level approach for resource management in the Greater Chaco region and address the climate crisis.