Video from 350NM Speaker Series: “Living with Oil Wells as Neighbors”

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What is it like to live in the Permian basin next to oil wells? How can we update the 1935 Oil and Gas Act to make it safer for the people living there? Join activists Kayley Shoup and Tannis Fox on this video recorded Oct 24, 2022 to find out.

The Green Amendment Moving Forward

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Join with leaders & activists to  get the latest updates and learn about opportunities to engage on the New Mexico Green Amendment. 

Presenters will include

  • Senator Antoinette Sedillo Lopez
  • Representative Joanne Ferrary
  • Senator Shannon Pinto
  • Senator Harold Pope 
  • Representative Tara Lujan
  • Representative Patricia Roybal Caballero
  • Nena Benevidez, Creciendo Nuevo Mexico
  • Luis Guerrero, Sierra Club
  • Oriana Sandoval, Center for Civic Policy
  • Maya van Rossum, Green Amendments For The Generations 

To join the webinar sign up here

Internship Opportunity

If you are interested in a part-time paid internship opportunity to actively support the New Mexico Green Amendment, applications are being invited now.  Learn more 

Reminder – if you are the leader of the organization that has not yet signed up in support of, and to be a part of, the 2022/2023 effort to secure Green Amendment support of New Mexico’s environmental rights, you can do so at this link.  Signing in support lists you on the website, provides an opportunity for your logo to be on informational materials, and ensures your leadership role in advancing this powerful protection for New Mexico’s people and environments.  Even if you signed in support in the past, we ask that you please affirmatively reaffirm your support now as we won’t presume that past support means present support.

 

 

 

A Petition Calling for Strong Methane Rules in Oil and Gas

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Interfaith Power & Light

New Mexico & El Paso Region

PO Box 27162,  Albuquerque, New Mexico  87125   

info@nm-ipl.org   www.nm-ipl.org

Dear President Biden,

We are running out of time to act on climate and protect public health. Thankfully, cutting methane pollution from oil and gas operations is one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways we can slow the rate of climate change now, and keep our air clean and safe to breathe.

We were encouraged to learn that EPA has submitted a rule to the Office of Management and Budget to address methane and other harmful air pollution from new and existing oil and gas operations. We need your administration to publish the draft rule as soon as possible to protect our communities and climate.

Families are counting on a strong and comprehensive methane rule to address the gaps in last year’s proposed rule, including:

  • Requiring regular inspections at high-polluting small wells with leak-prone equipment and eliminating pollution from routine flaring, both of which are outsized sources of methane emissions;
  • Committing to community monitoring programs and working to incorporate data generated by community groups; and
  • Including a requirement to use equipment that does not emit pollution at well sites such as pneumatics.

Please ensure that strong methane rules are proposed as soon as possible to protect public health and climate, there is no time to waste.

Name   (please print clearly)                         e-mail                                                         City/town

To receive a hard copy of the petition, send a note to carlos@nm-ipl.org

Completed petitions will go to Sister Joan Brown, osf, joan@nm-ipl.org

PO Box 27162
Albuquerque, NM 87125-7162
USA