Indigenous people in New Mexico have endured centuries of extractive industry that wreaked havoc on the health of our people, air, land, and water. A clean environment is essential to our communities’ way of life — we know the cost of its destruction all too well.

Transitioning our Tribal, state, and local economies away from fossil fuel — as New Mexico mandates by 2045 — will require heavy investment in social and physical infrastructure, as well as investing heavily in re-training, education, and support for workers and their communities, who often live paycheck-to- paycheck.

Our Indigenous Energy Team works to inform people on the reservation and in the city of potential threats to human and environmental health, collaborates with Tribal Nations across the Southwest to build renewable energy infrastructure, and develops policy to help us combat the issue of our time.