Wild & Scenic Film Festival - Silver City - Jan. 28

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FILMS TO CHANGE YOUR WORLD!
The Wild & Scenic Film Festival Returns to Silver City!

EVENT DETAILS:
Date and Time: January 28 - Kids Program Doors open at 1:30 show starts at 2:15. Main program doors open at 6:00 pm and show starts at 6:30 pm.

Location Address: Silco Theater, 311 N. Bullard, Silver City

Ticket Prices: Kid's program $5/family; Main program $8.00/person; $5 for GCC members, $15 for admission plus GCC membership. Tickets can be purchased at the door or in advance at the Gila Conservation Coalition.

Submitted by Jeff Potter on 26 January 2012 - 9:20am
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Sierra Club Files Legal Comments Regarding Flawed TXDOT Environmental Assessment of Transmountain Freeway Project

EL PASO, TEXAS, APRIL 12, 2011 – The Austin law firm of Loweree, Frederick, Perales, Allmon & Rockwell submitted comments on behalf of the El Paso Regional Group (Rio Grande Chapter) of the Sierra Club on April 1, 2011, to TxDOT regarding TxDOT’s recently submitted Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed Transmountain Freeway Project. The law firm noted that the EA failed to adequately analyze the noise, visual, vegetation, wildlife, and cumulative urbanization-inducing impacts of the proposed Project.

See the story in the El Paso Times

Submitted by dvw on 11 April 2011 - 9:18pm
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TXDOT to El Paso: “My Way or the Highway"

TXDOT says we have two choices. We can take their $85 million and build a four lane freeway with two lanes of frontage on each side and four overpasses running up sidethe mountain. Or we can doom our citizens to a safety hazard of a road because if we don’t like their idea they are sending the money back to Austin.

Submitted by dvw on 25 March 2011 - 12:09pm

Transmountain Road

The plan to widen El Paso’s Transmountain Road continues to concern El Paso Sierrans. The city’s engineering department recently weighed in with these three alternatives and comments:

Submitted by dvw on 16 January 2012 - 2:13pm
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Hard-won victory on dairy discharge

By Dan Lorimier, Conservation coordinator, Southern and El Paso groups

After roughly two and a half years of effort, the Rio Grande Chapter has successfully helped protect New Mexico’s precious but highly threatened groundwater that 9 out of 10 of us rely on for drinking.

Submitted by Jeff Potter on 15 January 2012 - 2:22pm
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Why N.M.’s carbon cap matters

Photo courtesy Youth Climate Action

The Sierra Club supports the existing carbon-cap law passed by the New Mexico Environmental Improvement Board (EIB) in 2010.

Submitted by Jeff Potter on 14 January 2012 - 2:13pm
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Northwest master plan and Transmountain Road expansion

The battle lines have been drawn: El Paso’s Public Service Board (PSB), which controls thousands of acres of open space around El Paso (ostensibly to protect the watershed), supported by the City Plan Commission, Mayor Cook and the El Paso Times, versus the city’s Open Space Advisory Board, the Franklin Mountains Wilderness Coalition, the El Paso Group Sierra Club Executive Committee, City Councilor Susie Byrd and El Paso’s environmental community. At issue is rezoning of about 800 acres of foothills north of Transmountain Road below Franklin Mountains State Park.

Submitted by dvw on 12 January 2012 - 4:06pm
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El Paso Adopts Flow Control

Opponents of the Camino Real Landfill in Sunland Park found an unexpected champion in their campaign to close the landfill: the El Paso City Council. On Aug. 24, the council took the forward-looking step to adopt “Flow Control,” an ordinance that will require all commercial waste in the city be dumped at city landfills.

Submitted by Jeff Potter on 10 January 2012 - 3:44pm
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Sun City Goes for Solar Energy

Solar PV - by DVW

There have been a number of promising developments recently in the El Paso area which bode well for us living up to our “Sun City” nickname.

Submitted by dvw on 7 January 2012 - 8:02pm
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El Paso Council approves Low-Income Weatherization Program

Energy Works

El Paso’s City Council voted December 15th to accept a $4 million grant to help low-income families weatherize their homes, thereby reducing their energy use and lowering their utility bills.

The money is from the federal government’s stimulus program and is being funneled through the state of Texas under contract with the city of El Paso. The program will help about 600 low-income households replace insulation, windows, and even energy-wasting appliances, according to Bill Lilly, the city’s Director of Community and Human Development.

Submitted by dvw on 1 January 2012 - 8:38pm
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