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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.
On May 31, KRQE News aired a news article on PFAS contamination in the Clovis area, with comments by Rio Grande Chapter Director Camilla Feibelman.
As the Bureau of Land Management holds its second of three in-person public meetings to promote the Department of Interior’s proposed Public Lands Rule, New Mexicans rallied in front of the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque to unfurl a 20-foot banner reading “Phase Out Federal Fossil Fuels: Biden Keep Your Promise on Public Lands and Waters” highlighting the mounting demands to address the legacy of fossil fuel sacrifice zones in New Mexico as a result of the continued fossil fuel leasing and drilling across public and ancestral tribal lands.
On May 24, advocates delivered a letter signed by over 200 local and national groups, businesses, unions, and institutions to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Rio Puerco Field office in Albuquerque urging the agency to phase out oil and gas leasing.
Meet our outings chair – Terry Owen
According to the American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air Report, Eddy County ranked as #19 most polluted county in the U.S. for ozone and is one of only two only rural counties among the top 25 in the US for ozone pollution. Eddy County has seen an increase in ozone days in each of the past five reports and earned an “F” grade. Albuquerque’s air quality has gotten worse since last year’s report, Albuquerque was named one of the top 25 worst cities in the nation for ozone pollution.
Tricia Snyder has served as a member of the Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter’s executive committee since 2023.