01 October 2018
Interning at a National Wildlife Refuge Complex
What’s better than working at one National Wildlife Refuge (NWR)? The answer is working at multiple refuges at the same time!!! Since last summer, I have interning at the newly named Lenape National Wildlife Refuge…
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19 September 2018
HAF Statement on BLM's Rollback of Methane Waste Rule
WASHINGTON - Maite Arce, President and CEO of the Hispanic Access Foundation, released the following statement in response to the Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management announcement that it will roll back the 2016…
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13 July 2018
PUBLIC NEWS SERVICE: Latino Conservation Week Celebrates Contributions to Stewardship
LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Latinos are expected to make up nearly a third of the U.S. population by 2050, according to Census projections. So conservation groups want to ensure that Latinos stay engaged in environmental…
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27 June 2018
COLORADO POLITICS: ‘Methane Rule’ for Oil and Gas is a Safeguard for Coloradans’ Health
The Bureau of Land Management’s Methane Waste and Prevention Rule is the epitome of common sense. It requires oil and gas companies that maintain operations on tribal and federal public lands – land that is…
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13 June 2018
ARIZONA CAPITOL TIMES: Proposal to Gut Methane Rule Harmful to Arizona, Latino Communities
The oil and gas industry doesn’t have nearly the same footprint within Arizona as it does elsewhere, but the Grand Canyon State is definitely dealing with the impact from its larger- producing neighbors.
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11 June 2018
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL: Health Hazards of Methane Necessitate Rule
I would like to issue our elected officials a challenge — let’s stop treating the health of Americans and the quality of our natural environment as partisan challenges and instead embrace them as moral obligations.
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