☀️ Last chance to register! Register for today's webinar launching Project HOW. Learn about the financial, technical & installation support available to your faith community to make the switch to renewable power. 🗓️ TODAY: October 30, 2025 1:00-2:00 pm MT 👉 Register here: buff.ly/4VaTxUT

Make your voice heard in support of modernizing oil & gas bonding rules! Public comment is still open. Get the details here:

☀️ Webinar — Introducing Project HOW: A Renewable Energy & Resilience Initiative for Faith Communities. We are thrilled to announce Project HOW, a renewable energy and resilience initiative for faith communities. 🗓️ Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 1pm to 2pm MT 👉 Register Here:

📢 REMINDER: Public comment opens today at 4pm MT! NM is updating oil & gas bonding & cleanup rules — so polluters pay, not taxpayers. Comment live or in writing Oct 20–Nov 7. 👉 How to comment:

🍂 Join us for our Annual Fall Gathering: Heartbreak and Hope, Digging Deep for Climate Courage! Join us for a keynote from environmental writer Laura Paskus, music, awards, a celebration of our community's work, and dinner (with raffle!). 👉 Visit our event page for details and to RSVP:

📢 Public comment opens Oct 20! NM is updating oil & gas bonding & cleanup rules — so polluters pay, not taxpayers. Comment live or in writing Oct 20–Nov 7. 👉 How to comment:

☀️ Webinar — Introducing Project HOW: A Renewable Energy & Resilience Initiative for Faith Communities. We are thrilled to announce Project HOW, a renewable energy and resilience initiative for faith communities. 🗓️ Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 1pm to 2pm MT 👉 Register Here: buff.ly/rl7W2kr

☀️ What is Project HOW? Our Project HOW (Houses of Worship ) initiative helps faith communities cut costs, go renewable, electrify, and build energy resilience. Together, we can decarbonize and lead on climate—especially as federal action retreats. 👉 Learn more:

Online Workshop: The Rio Grande Reckoning: Data Centers, Debt, and the Compact Crisis NM faces a ballooning water debt under the Rio Grande Compact. Data centers and reuse of produced water are adding to the crisis. Learn how to protect our water. 🗓️ Oct 16, 6:30-8:00pm Register: buff.ly/aG2H94D

Announcing Project HOW, our new initiative that provides hands-on, wraparound support to help faith communities improve energy efficiency and transition to renewable energy. LEARN MORE: www.nm-ipl.org/our-work/pro...

🚀 Join our webinar for the launch of Project HOW by New Mexico Interfaith Power & Light! Project HOW helps faith communities reduce energy use, switch to renewables, and build resilience. 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/3yrjjkyb

Hundreds of unplugged wells threaten #NewMexico’s future. Stronger bonding rules = cleaner land & water + accountability for oil & gas. 🌍 Learn more & take action in our webinar: tinyurl.com/3dza77n9 #NMClimate #ClimateJustice

Taxpayers shouldn’t be left with the bill to clean up abandoned oil & gas wells. Without stronger rules, #NewMexico faces pollution + huge costs. Join our webinar to get involved: tinyurl.com/3dza77n9 #ClimateAction #ProtectNM

Unplugged oil & gas wells in #NewMexico could leave us with billions in costs + toxic land & water. We need stronger bonding rules now. 💧 Join our webinar to learn how to comment & take action: tinyurl.com/3dza77n9 #ClimateAction #NMClimate

☀️ Happy Sun Day! ☀️ The sun gives us abundant energy every day. ⚡ On this Sun Day of action, www.sunday.earth, we celebrate the power of solar to cut carbon, protect our climate, and create a better future for NM. At NM-IPL, we're turning sunlight into climate action with Project HOW. 🌞 Stay tuned!

Sep 18, 6:30pm: Join our friends at NM Water Advocates for an online discussion on the proposed water rights transfer by Niagara, PNM, and Village of Los Lunas. Learn how this goes against NM water law, doesn’t conserve water, and violates the public welfare. Register here: tinyurl.com/32abuebx

Is your faith community ready to act on clean energy? Join us for a webinar on Monday, September 15th at 3pm MT to discuss the opportunities that remain available through federal tax credits for clean energy through the end of 2025. Register here: tinyurl.com/ynu7rsta

🌶️ You can’t grow chile without clean water. In Rio Arriba County, aging oil & gas wells threaten to poison what sustains us: land, water, and legacy. Op-ed from @vivarioarriba.bsky.social on why modernizing bonding will help make #NMPol safer and cleaner. www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/my_v...

Yesterday, our Board Chair, Ruth Striegel, provided public comment to the EPA: “The cost of delaying methane rules is too great—economically & morally.” 🌍 Communities can’t afford 3.8M more tons of methane in our skies. Read her full comment: tinyurl.com/224nmd6s #ClimateJustice #Methane #NMIPL

Join us for the Fall Permian Immersion Pilgrimage Experience September 25-27. This immersion retreat introduces people of faith and conscience to frontline communities, to the land & waters, and to the extensive oil & gas industry in the Permian Basin. For more details, go here: tinyurl.com/3evdp992

NM has 60k+ oil wells needing cleanup. Current law lets companies set aside just $105/well—real cost is $163k. We need bonding reform so corporations, not communities, pay. Learn more: tinyurl.com/5b7bwmfp Hearing in Oct 2025—faith & moral voices needed! 🌎

💧We’re co-hosting a monthly online workshop with NM Water Advocates — and the next one is this Thursday, Aug 21 | 6:30–8pm. Learn how riparian, wetland & upland restoration strengthen watershed health. Register here: tinyurl.com/4wkpd3tx

🌿 #MindfulMonday 🌿 Migration is woven into the rhythms of creation — from monarch butterflies to human families seeking safety. Rev. Clara Sims reflects on the climate crisis, displacement, & our call to welcome with dignity. Read: tinyurl.com/yyvjkthe #ClimateJustice #Migration #FaithInAction

🌎💚 Climate Connection Circles — Aug 20, 6 PM MDT (Zoom) Hold space for climate grief, find community, and move toward hope. Inspired by Joanna Macy’s “Work That Reconnects.” Join the Zoom here: tinyurl.com/2kjhh58u #ClimateHope #ClimateConnection

Urge the EPA to do what is right—do not repeal the Endangerment Finding and deny the health impacts of climate pollution. Please take action by September 1, 2025! Sign EPA Petition here: tinyurl.com/32rcapp3

“As people of faith, we are called to care for creation and to act with justice. It is morally unacceptable to allow corporations to profit from our land while leaving behind pollution..." — Sister Joan Brown, osf, NM-IPL We're holding oil & gas accountable. Learn more: tinyurl.com/bdz7nd6a

New Mexico’s oil & gas bonding rules are broken. Abandoned wells = taxpayers on the hook for cleanup. We need: ✅ Corporations to pay 100% of cleanup costs ✅ Local cleanup jobs ✅ Protection for water, land & health Fair rule: If you drill it, you clean it. Sign: tinyurl.com/7dbz2hnx

🚨 What’s an abandoned well? It’s an oil or gas well that’s been abandoned by the company that drilled it — and now leaks methane, threatens our water, and puts the public at risk. Learn what they are and why it matters: westernlaw.org/keepnmenchan...

$1.6B. That’s what New Mexicans could pay to clean up abandoned oil & gas wells. Out-of-state companies are walking away—and our laws let them. Camilla Feibelman breaks it down in this must-read op-ed. 📖 tinyurl.com/ym2pyyhp 📢 Polluters should pay, not us.

Podcast: The Land Owns Us - James Skeet. In this episode of Unconfined, James Skeet waxes philosophical on European-style, settler-oriented, colonialism-informed agriculture and re-imagines an agricultural practice that relies on “indigenous regenerative intelligence.” Access here: buff.ly/g3bUI1z

🌿 Mindful Monday Reflection: "They thought they could bury us. They didn't know we were seeds." For a Christian-faith perspective on the church’s role in responding to the crises of our time, read Rev. Harry Ebert’s insights here: buff.ly/M5fY1UI

Podcast: Caring about Species Extinction and Climate Change from a Faith Perspective - Ryan Darr, YDS Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment discusses species extinctions, why it matters, why the climate crisis requires less individual action and new kinds of communities.

An interesting interview... Economic assumptions about risks of the climate crisis are no longer relevant, says communications expert Genevieve Guenther. She talks about the need to discuss catastrophic risks when communicating about the climate crisis. Read here: buff.ly/9f29szE

When Congress revoked California’s authority to set stricter emissions standards, they didn’t just target CA, they undermined policies in 17 states, including New Mexico. But, NM is stepping up! Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, thank you for protecting our communities! Read more:

🌿 Mindful Monday: “We must regain the conviction that we need one another...” —Pope Francis, Laudato Sí High temps in NM put 247k+ workers at risk. Industry is fighting a Heat Standard that would protect them. Connect with the movement at:

Leaders in Washington D.C. are currently pushing harmful climate policies, that endanger us all—including themselves. In our recent newsletter, our Executive Director, Desirée Bernard, calls us to walk together toward justice, healing, and hope. Read her full statement here: buff.ly/PNO0Kr6

Join NM Water Advocates for a workshop featuring two Bernalillo County Commissioners & Water Utility Authority board members who are on the front lines of NM's water crisis: Building Resilience in the Middle Rio Grande (virtual), Thursday, July 17th, 6:30-8:00pm. Register here: buff.ly/q4GiR4Q

🌿 Mindful Monday Reflection: “Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.” - Wendell Berry Keep informed about our water situation. NM Water Advocates hosts a monthly speaker series (virtual) and publishes a newsletter. Visit their website here: nmwateradvocates.org

Join us on Zoom for "Climate Connection Circles: Honoring Emotions & Activating Hope." We'll be honoring what weighs on our hearts while moving us toward hope for our planet. We will draw on Joanna Macy's "work that reconnects." Wednesday, July 9, 6:00pm to 7:00pm MT. Join here: bit.ly/4kkmWXz

Last week, the USDA Secretary announced plans to repeal the Roadless Rule, which protects 58.5M acres of national forest. Their reason? Reducing wildfires. But data says more roads = more fires. Don’t be fooled. 📚 Read more: tinyurl.com/mr3ey6nb

📍Today (Thurs, 6/26) | 4:30–5:30pm Join Catholic Sisters & friends at the Fed Court (4th & Lomas, ABQ) to call for a Moral Budget. 🕊️ Prayer, reflection & action to protect housing, vets, health, environment & more. All are welcome. #MoralBudget #FaithInAction

🌿 Mindful Monday “The most important thing we can do is talk about [climate change].” — Katharine Hayhoe In a warming world, silence = complicity. Speak up. Share climate truth. Let your faith be loud for justice. #SpiritualIntegrity #Faiths4ClimateJustice #NMClimateAction #MindfulMonday

We joined 65+ orgs urging senators: don’t defund or delay the Methane Emissions Reduction Program (MERP). MERP cuts pollution, stops energy waste & supports clean energy jobs. Tell your senators to protect it. 📄 Read the letter: tinyurl.com/ytv4rd4z #CutMethane #ClimateAction

Department of Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is coming to Santa Fe on June 23. There will be a rally to support our sacred public lands and protest any attempts to privatize and sell them off.

🌿 Mindful Monday: “Ecological conversion begins in the heart.” – Pope Francis In NM, our energy use impacts land, air & frontline communities. This week, reflect: Can your home or faith space decarbonize? For specific steps your faith community can take to decarbonize, visit tinyurl.com/3yh6bzb7

We recently hosted a webinar where participants shared personal reflections from our Spring Immersion Retreat in the Permian Basin. View the video here: youtu.be/dvIRY9kfWjc

📍 Oak Flat is sacred, and it is in danger. ⏰ On June 6 at 11am MDT, stand with the San Carlos Apache Tribe. 🙏 Pray for the judge to grant an injunction to stop the land transfer. 🥾 If you can, join a 1.8 mile prayer walk – the width of the potential mine’s crater. #SaveOakFlat #PrayforOakFlat

Join Creation Justice Ministries and co-sponsors to save Oak Flat from destruction! Register for their webinar today, Tuesday, June 3 at 7pm EDT (5pm MDT) to learn about the cultural significance of this sacred site, current threats, and actions you can take. Register here: tinyurl.com/4jz9pt6h

The Fall 2025 Immersion Retreat in the Permian Basin and southeastern New Mexico is scheduled for September 25-27. This is an opportunity to understand the scope of oil and gas extraction, impacts on communities, and to reflect and engage. For details, go here: tinyurl.com/3evdp992

ProgressNow NM sent this memo to state officials this week to show the actually shocking amount of influence oil and gas has over NM politics. Literally 54% of all lobbying dollars spent this year came from them! 😳 #NMpol bit.ly/oil-gas-influence-nmpol