Rio Grande Chapter

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 ...

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 ...

The New Mexico ICO program will be hiking on Saturday, Sept. 23, 2023 with Big Brothers/Sisters. We’ll hike La Cieneguilla Trail southwest of Santa Fe. We’re meeting at 8:45 and leaving at 9:00 a.m., and we should be back no later than 3:00. Those interested should contact Raymond N. Greenwell at matrng@hofstra.edu ...

BY NM CLEAN AIR COALITION Update! Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on July 3 announced that her administration would propose Clean Cars and Trucks rules this month to the Environmental Improvement Board. The administration filed the petition on Friday, July 7.  A  broad coalition of New Mexico climate, environmental-justice and business groups is advocating for the state to adopt Advanced Clean Cars and Trucks standards by the end of 2023 to save lives and money and create climate solutions in New ...

The New Mexico ICO program will be hiking on Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023 with Santa Fe Youth Shelters. We’ll hike the Grasshopper Canyon Trail off of I-25 on the way to Las Vegas, NM. We’re meeting at 8:45 and leaving at 9:00 a.m., and we should be back no later than 3:00. Those interested should contact Raymond N. Greenwell at matrng@hofstra.edu ...

For immediate release: July 6, 2023 **See live updates of our press release here.  On Thursday, the New Mexico Supreme Court affirmed the Public Regulation Commission’s order denying PNM’s application to transfer its interest in the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant to the owner of the coal mine supplying the plant.  The court rejected all of PNM’s arguments and affirmed the commission’s decision in its entirety. Sierra Club had intervened on the side of the commission after strongly advocating at ...

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 ...

By Carol P. Chamberland, Central New Mexico Zero Waste Recently a friend sent me a disturbing chart on the decomposition rates of various types of garbage. I looked further into the matter and found it’s worse than I thought. Way worse. America is a wasteful country. Daily, we generate four pounds of waste per person. Annually, that’s more than 220 million tons of trash, three times the global average. We use 1.6 million barrels of oil per year just to produce plastic ...