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Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project Executive Director, Allyson Siwik, talks to U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich about several environmental and conservation issues in southwest New Mexico and with Brittany Fallon, Conservation and Legislative organizer with the Rio Grande Chapter of the Sierra Club, about the 30-day legislative session that begins on January 21, 2020. Elected in 2012, Sen. Heinrich serves on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee […]

Earth Matters co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project director Allyson Siwik talks to Peter Russell and Earth Matters co-producer and Upper Gila Watershed Alliance director Donna Stevens, both members of Peaceful Gila Skies, about the Holloman Air Force Base expansion of its F-16 pilot training airspace across southern New Mexico. Although the Air Force acknowledges that current airspace is adequate for F-16 combat training, it would like to add more-- […]

Upper Gila Watershed Alliance Executive Director and Earth Matters Co-producer Donna Stevens talks about the Chino Closure/Closeout Plan and other hardrock mining issues with Allyson Siwik, Executive Director of the Silver City-based Gila Resources Information Project and Earth Matters co-producer. Although copper mining plays a big role in the economy of Grant County, mining operations contaminate surface and groundwater, impair air quality and pollute our environment, affecting our health and […]

As we find ourselves immersed in a partial government shutdown, in the midst of a presidential meltdown, and a radical change of facts on the ground as the political landscape shifts at the state and national levels, Earth Matters, co-producer and UGWA / Upper Gila Watershed Alliance Executive Director Donna Stevens convenes a gathering of all the co-producers of Earth Matters to review the events of this past very tumultuous […]