Last month, WildEarth Guardians’ Climate and Energy team had an inspiring weekend out in the field at the Uplift Climate Conference. Senior Campaigner Rebecca Sobel and Climate Guardians Shannon Hughes and Becca Fischer attended the youth-focused climate conference from September 15 through the 17th. This year the […]
In spite of calls from the Navajo Nation for a moratorium on fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwestern New Mexico, the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management has continued to rubberstamp industry demands for more drilling permits. As we wrote earlier this year, […]
WildEarth Guardians led a coalition this week in calling on the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to plan for the inevitable shutdown of New Mexico’s San Juan coal mine. As we’ve been writing about frequently, the San Juan mine, which fuels the massive San Juan […]
Now is your chance to help advance real transition from coal in the American West and beyond. Send a letter today and tell the Trump Administration it’s time to shut down New Mexico’s San Juan coal mine and move the region toward a future of clean energy and […]
This Monday, May 8, the Navajo Nation Council is hosting the first of hopefully many public forums on the impacts of fracking in the Greater Chaco region. The forum will take place at the Counselor Chapter House. The forum comes on the heels of mounting support for protecting […]
Last week the U.S. Office of Surface Mining held a series of public meetings around its environmental review of operations at the San Juan coal mine. The mine fuels the San Juan Generating Station near Farmington, New Mexico, the source of millions of tons of toxic air pollution. The review […]
Check out some of our latest pictures of the San Juan coal mine and San Juan Generating Station in New Mexico. Yeah, they’re ugly pictures, but hopefully they give you a sense of how massive this coal complex is and how much it affects the air, water, land, […]
The U.S. Office of Surface Mining is conducting a comprehensive environmental review of the San Juan coal mine, which fuels the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station. Located in the Greater Chaco region of northwestern New Mexico, the San Juan mine and power plant are responsible for millions of […]
Superlatives are an understatement on the Colorado Plateau. Home to Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches, and more, the region is the American West’s defining collision of contrasts pushed to some of the most beautiful extremes. The land, the water, the people, the air–they’re a mélange of unlikely proportions that […]
