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The Wildlife Refuge Helping a Community Fight for Environmental Justice
Egrets gather at an irrigation canal near the Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, on June 23, 2014.
Photo by Roberto E. Rosales / Albuquerque Journal / ZUMAPRESS.com / Alamy
Can this New Mexico community get green space without the gentrification that usually follows?
Apr 16, 2021
The South Valley in Albuquerque, New Mexico, was once a thriving oasis of food production watered by a network of historic irrigation canals, or
acequias. Today, it’s home to several historic neighborhoods along the Rio Grande, including Mountain View.
After much of the area was rezoned in the 1960s, the residents, who are mainly Chicanos as well as recent immigrants, came under siege by the structural forces of environmental racism that dictate who lives near polluters and who doesnât. Mountain View was soon enveloped by industry â auto recyclers, Albuquerqueâs sewage plant, paint facilities and fertilizer suppliers â that left a legacy of contaminated groundwater, two Superfund sites and high levels of air pollution.
Now, six decades later, Mountain View is facing yet another transformation. In 2012, the community became the first in the agencyâs south-west region to have a piece of land within it â 570 acres â designated as an âurban wildlife refugeâ managed by the US Fish and Wildlife Service. The program started 11 years ago as a way to connect with new and more diverse segments of the population, by meeting people where they live â including the 82% of Americans who reside in
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Albuquerque Ride introduced its first electric bus on Jan. 30. This was a part of Mayor Tim Keller’s pre-pandemic plan to move Albuquerque to 100 percent renewable energy by 2030.
Rick De Reyes, a public information officer at ABQ Ride said, “This is part of Mayor Keller and the city’s overall plan to make Albuquerque a 100 percent renewable energy city by 2030. The city had already planned before the pandemic to lease one electric bus before the purchase, in order to test it out on Albuquerque’s roadways.”
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