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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 […]

This week on Earth Matters, co-producer and Gila Resources Information Project executive director Allyson Siwik talks with New Mexico Political Report’s Laura Paskus about her career as an environmental reporter and the outlook for New Mexico's environment and water resources under governor-elect Michelle Lujan Grisham. As an environment reporter for New Mexico Political Report and a litany of state and national publications, Laura Paskus has been writing about New Mexico’s […]