Electrify New Mexico!

Electrify New Mexico!
Wondering what in the world a heat pump is, and which kinds are best for New Mexico? Want to know why waiting until the end of the year is a bad time to install solar in New Mexico? Concerned about health-harming gases in your kitchen? Want an EV, but don’t like the choices available for purchase? Use the 350NewMexico website for these and more answers ...
/ Climate Change, Latest News

In the news – Attorney General sues more than twenty companies for alleged environmental contamination

In the news - Attorney General sues more than twenty companies for alleged environmental contamination
Camilla is interviewed on Telemundo about contamination by PFAS ...
/ Latest News

In the news – Native America Calling

In the news – Native America Calling
June 12, 2023, Native America Calling episode on President Biden's 20-year ban on new oil and gas leases surrounding Chaco Canyon ...
/ Justice, Land, Latest News

Secretary Haaland Protects Chaco Canyon From Oil, Gas Drilling

Secretary Haaland Protects Chaco Canyon From Oil, Gas Drilling
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 ...
/ Land, Latest News, Press Release

In the news: Cannon Air Force Base looking to let public weigh in on contamination cleanup efforts

In the news: Cannon Air Force Base looking to let public weigh in on contamination cleanup efforts
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.  ...
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Advocates Demand “Phasing Out Fossil Fuels” As Part of Proposed BLM Public Lands Rule

Advocates Demand “Phasing Out Fossil Fuels” As Part of Proposed BLM Public Lands Rule
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 ...

July 2023 hike with Santa Fe Youth Shelters

July 2023 hike with Santa Fe Youth Shelters
The New Mexico ICO program will be hiking on Saturday, July 8, 2023 with Santa Fe Youth Shelters. We’ll hike the eastern part of the Hyde Park Circle, including the detour to the waterfall. We’re meeting at 8:45 and leaving at 9:00 a.m., and we should be back no later than 2:00. Those interested should contact Raymond N. Greenwell at matrng@hofstra.edu ...
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Advocates Deliver Message to BLM to Cancel Lease Sale

Advocates Deliver Message to BLM to Cancel Lease Sale
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 ...
/ Land, Latest News, Press Release

Profile – Terry Owen

Meet our outings chair - Terry Owen ...
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24th Annual State of the Air Report

24th Annual State of the Air Report
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 ...
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