Local Choice Energy: Lets Make the Transition to Public Power

Consider these facts:
Electricity providers owned by municipalities in New Mexico have 25% lower residential average monthly bills than IOUs and coops.
Local Choice Energy legislation includes protections for workers and unions.
Locally-generated electricity is more reliable and resilient than the status quo.

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Pass the San Juan Coal Plant Clean Up Act

Economic risks – The economic risks posed by potential contamination of groundwater wells and the San Juan River are enormous. The river is a primary water source for Navajo and Jicarilla Apache people – well over 50 percent of the San Juan River watershed are Native American lands. The impacts of contamination will be much more widespread, with nearly every major population in New Mexico impacted by the river, whose waters are diverted to feed the Rio Grande reaching all the way to Albuquerque. 

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Background and Information TENORM Radioactive Dumping in Rio Rancho

“NMED should hold a public hearing which would result in a full investigation into the March 2018 radioactive waste disposal in the Rio Rancho Waste Management landfill and the August 2019 radioactive brine water disposal into the Rio Rancho sewer treatment facility.”

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Infrastructure degradation with siting of heavy industrialization in Rio Rancho Estates

One of the issues that are not being addressed in the Sandoval County Ordinance is the degradation of roadways. This…

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The rising risks of the West’s latest gas boom

An explosion in suburban Colorado raises questions on safety and accountability. Daniel Glick and Jason Plautz Oct. 19, 2018From the…

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The National Climate Assessment Dire Warnings

The National Climate Assessment Full report available online at: nca2018.globalchange.gov The Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates that the…

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High stakes, entrenched interests and the Trump rollback of environmental regs

By Julie Appleby, Kaiser Health  (Reprint) Since his days on the campaign trail, President Donald Trump has promised to roll…

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SPEAK OUT:Sandoval County Oil and Gas Ordinance-What you can do to Protect Water, Air, Health and Safety

PLEASE EMAIL and start calling: “David J. Heil (Sandoval County NM, Commissioner – Chairman, ph 505-252-6085)” <[email protected]>, “Dr. James F.…

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