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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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An op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette asks - What is it going to take to reign in oil and gas industries? One solution - VOTE into office people who will bring about needed change and push (hard) current elected officials to work FOR us and our healthy future. So that we ourselves are not faced with the name "cancer alley" applied to any area of New Mexico- or worse.
..."Reading the July 28 article “In Gas Country, Families Say They Are Prisoners in Their Own Home,” part two of the “Human Toll” series, makes me wonder: What is it going to take to put the brakes on the rapidly expanding industry that fracks gas in order to make plastics (which, incidentally, is one thing nature doesn’t need any more of)?"
..."Will it be the growing body of medical evidence — highlighted in the recently published 6th edition of Physicians for Social Responsibility’s fracking science compendium — that finally persuades Pennsylvania Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine that residents living near fracked gas infrastructure are suffering? Will it be when the new petrochemical hub on the Ohio River is designated a “cancer alley”?"
Healthy children more important than gas fracking
post-gazette.com
What is it going to take to put the brakes on the rapidly expanding industry that fracks gas in order to make plastics?Sustainable Good News Sunday begins with an MIT study which correlates the long-term health cost benefits in states who are investing in renewable energy. Proof that clean choices good for both our internal and external environments! Next, a family living in a solar powered home have upped their game to not only grow 7000 lbs. of food on a 1/10th of an acre, but selling the excess – via permaculture practices (a method of small space sustainable farming around since the 1980s). Next, Florida Power and Light (FPL) is working to build the country's largest community solar project by way of a new "fixed discount" business model – check it out! And finally, a website link from a news organization focusing on energy and the environment containing more information than we could ever report on – E&E. Enjoy! (links in comments section).
Clean Energy Produces Billions in Health Benefits, Study Finds
ecowatch.com
Leah Stokes, a political scientist at the the University of California, Santa Barbara was not involved in the study, but said the paper makes a link between economics and atmospheric...
https://www.utilitydive.com/news/everyone-loves-a-guaranteed-discount-new-financing-approach-drives-communi/559180/
https://www.healthy-holistic-living.com/permaculture-garden-produces-7000-pounds-of-organic-food-per-year-on-a-tenth-of-an-acre/?utm_source=CA
https://www.eenews.net/
Just Announced. News that environmental rights attorney from Taos, Kyle Tisdel, is running for New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District - the seat opening up as Ben Lujan runs for US Senate.
From a press release..."Kyle has an intimate understanding of the climate crisis and is advancing a plan for action that aims to secure a livable future for our children. This plan is centered around justice for those most affected by the energy transition, as well as those most impacted by the climate-driven disasters our nation is already experiencing. "
...”Kyle’s work in New Mexico includes the fight to protect the sacred Greater Chaco Landscape from the ravages of oil and gas exploitation, which threaten cultural sites and indigenous communities. While representing environmental and Diné organizations in federal court, Kyle has won protection for over 20,000 acres in the Santa Fe National Forest from being sold for oil and gas development, and challenged federal approval for hundreds of fracking permits across Greater Chaco for failing to consider the cumulative impacts on people and the environment. "
..."These wins not only protect our public lands, but reduce air and water pollution that harms the health of people living in the shadow of fossil fuel exploitation. Kyle’s recent victories also include half a dozen precedent-setting climate cases in federal courts across the country. These critical victories hold the administration accountable to the scientific reality and timeline of the climate emergency, and set the stage for rapid climate progress to be made under new leadership.”
DISCLAIMER: Under the conditions of our 501-C3 status, RACC cannot endorse any political candidate. We simply serve to pass on information to help educate voters regarding issues affecting New Mexico residents.
Wow. That would be great.
I donated to his campaign and he wrote me a very nice thank you email - wow, refreshing!
H sounds like somebody I would support.
