New Mexico’s State budget is dominated by money from oil and gas production. It has been for 70 years. During that time our state has dropped to the bottom …
Category: air pollution
Time to Close the Four Corners Generating Station
By Tom Ribe Standing on the mesas near Bandelier National Monument in about 1970 we looked across the Rio Grande Valley through a thick, often impenetrable gray smog that …
The Public Defeats Billionaire, Saves Wolf Creek Pass
It’s great fun to go skiing at Wolf Creek Pass and enjoy the incredible views of the wild San Juan Mountains and the landscapes far beyond. Great to hike there …
Oil Spill in Animas and other Oil Industry Disasters
This week, British Petroleum Corporation (BP) created an Animas River oil spill. BP has dumped oil and fraking fluids into the Animas River near Durango, Colorado. The company spilled fraking …
Key Environmental Issues in New Mexico Governor’s Race
This November we chose a new governor in New Mexico. After eight years of population decline and economic stagnation under Suzanna Martinez, we have a chance to change course. The …
Nowhere More Beautiful: The San Juan Loop
Leaving the low country and heading into the high country means sensory overload, pleasure, bliss, extreme exercise, danger, possibility of hypothermia, nudity, clinging to rocks with toes and fingertips and …
Beyond the Fun; Reckoning with Durango’s History
Most of us live in the West because of the exceptional outdoor opportunities here, the vast areas of wild land, big mountain ranges, rivers, climbing cliffs, beautiful deserts and solitude. …
Budweiser as National Environmental Leader?
As a compulsive litter collector along the roadsides of the American West, I have found that Bud Lite cans are the most littered beer cans, by far. But even if …
