Honoring Chaco News Today

Frontline groups say an Interior Department plan to clean up extraction sites in the Greater Chaco Region has stalled.

More than 336,400 acres of public land are now off limits for mining and oil drilling for 20 years.

U.S. DOI has sought to preserve the resources of this historically and culturally valuable area by withdrawing the public lands and federal mineral estate surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park from new oil and gas leasing.

The protections are aimed at preserving thousands of archaeological sites in northern New Mexico sacred to many Native American tribes in the region.

Environmentalists, Indigenous groups sue feds over improper oil-lease permitting in New Mexico for the third time in three years.

Today, a group of Diné and conservation groups challenged the Biden administration’s approval of fracking on nearly 45,000...

News Release Fossil Free Media This week Greater Chaco Coalition members are participating in public meetings as part of the Department of Interior’s “Honoring

This process began in November with a secretarial order from the U.S. Department of the Interior. Public comments must be submitted by April 6.

When it comes to protecting the Greater Chaco region, the answers are not always simple, as demonstrated by the ongoing public comment period regarding withdrawing federal lands around Chaco Culture National Historical Park from mineral leasing for two decades. The oil-rich section of the San Juan Basin has been at the center of debate as […]

#ItsNotOver as Interior Department initiates 90-day comment period to pause new oil and gas leasing around Chaco Culture National Park, Coalition reaffirms need to protect culture, communities, and climate across Greater Chaco Landscape.