WINDOW ROCK – The Health, Education, and Human Services Committee considered Legislation No. 0226-16 on Monday, which requests a scientific study to be conducted on the environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing, also known as “fracking,” before the Navajo Nation government considers establishing any policy regarding the resource extraction method. According to the legislation, in 2013 [...]

"Today environmental activists, Indigenous youth, and other concerned citizens disrupted a Politico event sponsored the American Petroleum Institute, the leading American trade group of the fossil fuel industry. The event, “Energy and the Election at the DNC”, featured prominent Democratic lawmakers and energy advisors including, Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Gov. Jay Inslee (D-WA), Rep. Dave Loebsack [...]

By Marie C. Baca / Journal Staff Writer ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — "New Mexico Gas Co. is moving forward with plans to build the state’s first natural gas pipeline to Mexico. Teala Kail, a spokeswoman for the utility, said the company will seek a federal permit to begin building the pipeline and expects construction to be [...]

By Alysa Landry "It took Dorothy Keetso only a few minutes to realize the baby lamb was fatally deformed. The animal, born June 6, nursed from a bottle and followed on Keetso’s heels as she moved through her family’s home in the small Navajo community of Counselor, New Mexico. The lamb’s belly swelled with milk, [...]

By Andrea Crossan Imagine going to fill up your tank and seeing a label on the pump that says what you are doing was causing climate change. The city of North Vancouver in Canada is launching a new program to encourage drivers to think about being more energy-efficient when they drive — and that fossil [...]

A look back at a decade of coverage of anti-fossil fuel protests. Kate Schimel July 19, 2016Web Exclusive Protests against fossil fuel development began about a decade ago and High Country News has been covering them ever since. In the waning years of George W. Bush's presidency, environmental groups fought auctions of public lands for oil [...]

By Joelle Marier / New Mexico Wilderness Alliance The recent request by the Consumer Energy Alliance for the Bureau of Land Management to reverse its decision to postpone leasing of three oil and gas parcels in the greater Chaco area that were slated for an October lease sale demonstrates just how eager the oil and [...]

Despite recent attempts to marginalize public voices, close to fifty advocates and indigenous leaders called for an end to new federal fossil fuel leasing at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) State Office in Santa Fe today, sharing stories of community members impacted by the Obama Administration’s controversial oil and gas leasing program. Dozens of [...]

NASA Land and ocean temperature information for June, 2016. It’s been hot. On Monday, temperature records were broken or tied in Capulin, Roswell, Clayton, Clines Corners, Santa Fe, and Tucumcari. Cue the small talk and the paper fans, because there’s not much more to say about New Mexico’s weather lately. At least that's what you’d [...]

Environmentalists seek out new rocks to sling at oil and gas giants while pushing for more public Protection and local control July 20, 2016, 12:00 am By Elizabeth Miller When Kendra Pinto stepped outside her grandmother’s northwestern New Mexico house on a July night to look for signs of a fire a friend texted her about, [...]