Sierra Club: Rio Grande Chapter

The data center boom is pulling the curtain back on what our digital lives are costing communities when it comes to protecting their land, scarce water resources, and pollution from electric power generation. See what's happening in Raton.

Small northern New Mexico city postpones decision on data center moratorium • Source New Mexico Officials in Raton, New Mexico, delayed a decision on a data center moratorium after signing an agreement with a developer earlier this year.

This June, the state Water Quality Control Commission will write the rules to take SB 21 from a guiding framework to an actionable set of guardrails to safeguard our precious waterways. But people and communities are not the only ones who need clean water and will benefit from strong, comprehensive rules.

The question before the Water Quality Control Commission this June is more than procedural, it’s existential. The final rules the commission writes will define the future of New Mexico’s water, and whether future generations of people and wildlife will have this resource, or not.

The commission needs to hear New Mexicans speak out in support of strong rules. Public comments can be given every day until 1 p.m. June 18, in person or virtually.

Water and wildlife protections hang in the balance It’s another dry year in New Mexico — an extraordinarily dry one. One hundred percent of the state is in drought, iconic waterways like the Rio Grande are at risk

Private equity companies are harming our health care and elder care, and now they're coming for our essential services. The PRC should be open and transparent in their proceedings and the state should use it's windfall funds to invest in our utility and it's renewable future.

A chance for a pause on Blackstone-PNM acquisition One of the more consequential discussions about which company will run New Mexico’s largest public utility is taking place today at the Public Regulation Commission.