By Russell Begaye / Navajo Nation President, And Edward Paul Torres / All Pueblo Council Of Governors Chairman This year, the All Pueblo Council of Governors, a body composed of 19 sovereign Pueblo nations, hosted a historic summit between the Pueblo governors and the president and vice-president of the Navajo Nation to focus attention on how [...]
Drawdown: 100 solutions to reverse global warming By Flannery Winchester Each month, Citizens’ Climate Lobby hosts an online meeting featuring a guest speaker to educate listeners on topics related to climate change and our Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal. Check out recaps of past speakers here. Changing how you understand a problem can have a huge [...]
Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E News reporter Energywire: Friday, August 11, 2017 An oil and gas well produces on public lands in Utah. Ellen M. Gilmer/E&E News This story was updated at 10:05 a.m. EDT. The oil and gas industry will not have another shot at swiftly delaying Obama-era greenhouse gas restrictions. A federal appeals court yesterday [...]
Halfway down Highway 550 from the Colorado border to Albuquerque, NM lies a community so humble and dispersed that if you blink, you’ll miss it. Nestled in the hills, these people are as native to this place as the land itself. For centuries, their ancestors thrived in this harsh and stunning place. Yet, over the last half [...]
Interior Sec. Ryan Zinke is filling his office with extractive industry insiders. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is three months into a review of 27 national monuments to determine whether they should be shrunk, abolished or left intact. Zinke’s review comes as he continues to fill his department with pro-industry officials and amid a broader push at the [...]
Climate change and weather: How are they connected? By Pam Shaouy Record-breaking snowy winters. Stronger storms battering coastlines. Severe droughts ending with torrential rains. Extreme weather events have increased over the last few decades and especially over the last few years. We’ve all heard that global warming can increase the frequency and severity of weather [...]
by Ellen M. Gilmer The Trump administration must enforce Obama-era restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions from the oil and gas industry — at least for now. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit last night issued a mandate striking down U.S. EPA's attempt to pause methane restrictions for the sector. The [...]
BY JEREMY NICHOLS Check out our latest interactive map of oil and gas industry “incidents” reported in the State of New Mexico since January 1, 2017, click on the image above or click here and explore for yourself. In total, 635 “incidents,” ranging from oil spills to fires to “other” spills and releases have been reported so [...]
The agency says the regulation ‘imposes unjustified costs’ on oil and gas industry. This article was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration has proposed scrapping an Obama-era rule that aimed to ensure fracking for oil and gas does not pollute water supplies. The Bureau of [...]
By David Baake / Democratic Candidate, 2nd Congressional District Bob Dylan famously sang that “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.” We could update Dylan’s adage to say that in 2017, you don’t need a climatologist to see we’re in the midst of an ecological crisis. By way of review: 2016 [...]