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Call for Board Members
Would you like to make a meaningful and creative contribution to the Community of the Rio Chama Watershed?
We are inviting interested citizens to meet with us to discuss becoming a
Rio Arriba Concerned Citizen Board Member.
Please contact us at info@rioarribaconcernedcitizens.com or just come meet us at our next Board Meeting of 2019:
The last Friday of every month, public portion of the meeting 2-3pm, at the El Rito Public Library
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This notice came to RACC from our fellow environmental protection groups March 30th. A request to extend all key deadlines during the COVID19 crisis. Also noted: the New Mexico Congressional Delegation and other environmental and archaeological conservation groups sent similar letters calling for extension of the comment period by at least 120-days. These challenging times call for more time to work on important Chaco Protections. Read on.
apcg.org
March 30, 2020March 30, 2020, Uncategorized FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 30th, 2020 Contact: Alicia Ortega, APCG@indianpueblo.org All Pueblo Cou...Frack Free says it best!...Today political officials and over two dozen Indigenous, environmental, and community groups called on the New Mexico State Office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to adequately respond to the COVID-19 crisis and immediately suspend all open public comment periods, planning processes, and major policy development.
While we all are distracted this administration is running amok with our environmental protections - again. Read on.
..."Until late afternoon on Thursday, March 26, the Trump administration's tack on environmental matters in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic was run-of-the-mill grifting, oil-and-gas fluffing, and regulatory sleight of hand. While millions sheltered in place, the EPA forged ahead with its effort to weaken automobile fuel-efficiency standards. The national parks were shuttering, but the Interior Department was leasing more public lands for oil and gas development. The United States led the world in COVID-19 infections, but the campaign to gut the National Environmental Policy Act continued unabated. The moves were outrageous and scandalous, but sadly par for the course for the most anti-environmental administration in US history.
Then the EPA upped its game by dropping notice that for the duration of the pandemic, the agency would suspend enforcement of environmental laws." Read more --> sc.org/3bOOxgf
