The fossil fuel boom in New Mexico's Permian Basin is poisoning the air we breathe. #MakePollutersPay https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/new-study-tracks-radon-pollution-in-new-mexico-oil-country-highlights-flares/article_b6d9bb01-ccec-4f5d-8f5d-93a323f5c87b.html

New study tracks radon pollution in New Mexico oil country, highlights flares

A study found air pollution from the oil and gas industry across the Permian Basin in Eastern New Mexico and West Texas.

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The Trump administration says they need to destroy the Roadless Rule to prevent wildfires. The truth is eliminating protections for 45 million acres of Roadless Areas won't reduce fire risk, but it will destroy refuges for wildlife & harm our water supply. Take action ➡️ https://loom.ly/Qz2hjqw

Polluters don’t get to decide which clean air laws apply to them. The Polis administration needs to stop giving West Elk a pass and enforce the law. https://coloradosun.com/2026/09/28/colorado-coal-mine-methane-links-violations/

Western Colorado coal mine violates methane caps nearly 4 times over, state says

Colorado's West Elk coal mine is violating methane leak caps, the state says, and environmental groups want strict enforcement.

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In New Mexico, residents are facing, on average, 96 oil and gas spills PER DAY - and climbing. Repeat polluters are raking in profits while the Permian Basin bears the brunt of the damage - and our climate tips towards disaster. It's time for real consequences. #MakePollutersPay

Happy #PublicLandsDay, Guardians! Spread your love for the landscapes we share across the West by getting outside. Together, we can continue defending iconic Western landscapes and the wildlife that depend on them. 🍄Thank you, @desert_alchemist, for sharing your love of public lands 🙌

New blog! Read the latest on our campaign to protect the Greater Gila and its remarkable biodiversity, watersheds, and vital wildness. Hearts and bellies full, this year’s campout was ripe with connection – with each other, with ourselves, with the land. Read now ➡️ https://loom.ly/oHs290c

This strips the teeth right out of the ESA. We won't stand by while decades of conservation progress are wiped out. https://sourcenm.com/2026/09/21/repub/trump-administration-says-developers-loggers-can-kill-endangered-species/

Trump administration says developers, loggers can kill endangered species • Source New Mexico

The Trump administration’s top wildlife official issued a directive last week that expands a recent rollback of endangered species protections much further than the feds had told the public. Individuals and industries may kill endangered animals and plants in the course of logging projects, developments and other activities, it said — so long as the activity’s purpose isn't killing species.

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We're going to court because the Pecos pupfish waits in legal limbo while the Trump administration slashes endangered species protections. Learn more from Endangered Species Advocate Joanna Zhang ➡️ https://loom.ly/hn60WiY #StopExtinction #EndangeredSpeciesAct

In 2020, Guardians' Communications Director Jon Schwedler took a bike trip to Bears Ears National Monument. The land was beautiful, and during that time of Covid, Jon was struck by the deep resilience of the ancestral Puebloan culture written in the landscape.

Extinction is forever, and enforcing the Endangered Species Act remains our strongest tool to prevent it. Our job is to make sure imperiled species do not fall through the widening cracks at USFWS where species wait decades for needed protections. Read the blog ➡️ https://loom.ly/hXPoe_k

Grizzly bears aren't lawyers, but they need laws to survive. Our new webpage The Grizzly Bear Story is here! We broke down which laws are most important for the 2,300 remaining grizzly bears in the Lower 48 states. Dive in to the grizzly bear story ➡️ https://loom.ly/VnF7gCo

For September, we're highlighting #WildPlaces that provide us solace, respite, joy, and inspiration. Last summer, before before the fires burned a bunch of the Canyon, Guardians' Development Director Kevin Gaither-Banchoff and his wife visited the epic Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.

It's a certified banger! Check out the Wolf Connection podcast featuring Guardians' brilliant wildlife staff Lizzy Pennock and Joanna Zhang on wolves, grizzlies, and the Endangered Species Act. https://loom.ly/1RH8Gt0

Episode #255 Lizzy Pennock & Joanna Zhang - Wolves, Grizzlies, and the ESA - The Wolf Connection

At WildEarth Guardians, Lizzy Pennock works as the Carnivore Coexistence Attorney alongside Joanna Zhang, the Endangered Species Advocate. In this episode Lizzy and Joanna came on to discuss three major issues: rollbacks affecting the Endange...

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Wolves belong. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/08/california-gray-wolf-mendocino-national-forest

We must stop the sacrifice of Greater Chaco. https://inequality.org/article/the-fight-to-protect-chaco/

Inside New Mexico’s Oil and Gas “Sacrifice Zone”: The Fight to Protect Greater Chaco

New Mexico captures hundreds of millions in oil and gas revenue for public services and long-term savings. But communities closest to the wells say they pay a high price for extraction.

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The 135,000-acre Bitterroot Front project is on hold after we put the Forest Service on notice for failing to protect grizzly bears and their habitat. #BearsBelong https://missoulacurrent.com/bitterroot-logging-project-2/

Bitterroot logging project suspended to evaluate grizzly protecti

The Bitterroot Front Project was a plan for road projects, logging and burning across 144,000 acres or 225 square miles, from the northern boundary with the Lolo National Forest south to the West Fork of the Bitterroot River.

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Proposed changes to the Travel Management Rule would only hurt national forests and wildlife. Tell the Forest Service to keep the Travel Management Rule’s direction to minimize ecosystem damage, wildlife harassment, and conflicts. Sign our petition ➡️ https://loom.ly/b1Xi0l0

We stand with wolves. Will you stand with us against Trump's anti-wildlife extinction agenda? https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/090426_gray_wolf_delisting/trump-administration-moves-drop-gray-mexican-wolves-from-endangered-species-list/

Over the last month, Carlsbad had just one “good” air quality day. The city is surrounded by oil and gas wells and infrastructure. We are working ceaselessly to require much more stringent oil and gas pollution enforcement in New Mexico's Permian Basin. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/TAvwMTE

Studies Link New Mexico Drilling to Radiation, Air Pollution, Health Risks

Small towns in the Permian Basin have become a petri dish for the perils of living amid the nation's largest oil fields.

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We must end the war on wolves and embrace coexistence. Trump's Executive Orders only embolden and entrench radical anti-wolf ideology. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/trump-order-gray-wolves

September is #PublicLandsMonth but unfortunately it is no secret the current administration is mobilizing a historic attack on public lands like Diablo Canyon, a place where Leia Barnett has been since she was a teenager. Honor our public lands and read Leia's latest blog ➡️ https://loom.ly/aP7P0dI

Roadless Areas provide critical habitat for many threatened and endangered species, clean drinking water for millions of people, and remote backcountry recreation opportunities. Don’t allow the Trump administration to sell out Roadless Areas. Please take action ➡️ https://loom.ly/Qz2hjqw

Keep Roadless Areas Roadless!

The Trump administration wants to repeal the Roadless Rule and open nearly 45 million acres to logging, road-building, and other extractive industry. This will endanger wildlife and increase the threat of wildfire. Please sign our petition and tell the U.S. Forest Service to keep Roadless Areas as they are—Roadless!

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🌧️ It's raining... oh wait, that is toxic fracking waste. An oil and gas waste facility in Loving, New Mexico blew out and rained toxic fracking waste onto a family, their pets, their lawn, and their home, burning their eyes and contaminating a nearby waterway. #LeakOfTheWeek #KeepItInTheGround

🚨🐺BREAKING NEWS - President Trump today signed an executive order directing the Secretary of the Interior to consider removing Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves. Read more ➡️ https://loom.ly/nYJQUEM

This might be the perfect example of Trump not knowing what public lands mean to this country. To anyone but a real estate developer, it would be obvious that the true value of any part of Yosemite far exceeds whatever price some developer is willing to pay to exploit it. https://loom.ly/vB8yEWg

Trump’s Quietly Working to Give Part of Yosemite to a Private Developer

The National Park Service is under pressure to make an unprecedented deal that cedes a quarter-mile strip of the park.

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Yesterday, the Trump administration proposed a massive attack on forest protections. But Americans across the political spectrum have made it crystal clear that they don’t want political appointees removing protections from public lands. https://loom.ly/3aY1aqk

Trump administration moves ahead to end roadless rule on national forests

The Trump administration is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nationwide.

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Breaking: Today the Trump administration announced its intention to entirely remove Roadless Area Conservation Rule protections, opening 45 million acres to logging, mining, and oil & gas drilling and harming wildlife, water, and forests. More ➡️ https://loom.ly/D4cw2K4

Private companies poison sacred lands and waters and profit while we pay. It's time to change the equation. #MakePollutersPay #KeepItInTheGround https://www.newsradiokkob.com/2026/08/14/chaco-water-threatened/

Chaco water threatened

Albuquerque, NM (KKOB) -- Melissa Troutman, a climate and health advocate with WildEarth Guardians, spoke befo...

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Drill, baby, drill? More like spill, baby, spill. Did you hear that Trumpty Dumpty wants to slash protections for ancient sites in Chaco so his cronies can drill for oil and gas? It's time to get the Frack Off Chaco and #KeepItInTheGround. #LeakOfTheWeek

We are sickened by the news that the New Mexico Department of Justice declined to bring criminal charges against a trapper who illegally set a trap on public land and then killed an endangered Mexican gray wolf in a shockingly cruel and horrific death. More ➡️ https://loom.ly/5EqBOBs