When: 6:30 – 8:00pm, Oct. 24.

Description: What is it like to live with the New Mexico Permian Basin Climate Bomb, southeast NM’s home of the oil and gas industry? Join us to hear Kayley Shoup, community organizer discuss her work fighting for people suffering at the frontlines of the US’s sacrifice zone for “energy independence” and how she became an activist growing up in the dominant oil and gas culture.

Then hear from Tannis Fox, Senior Attorney of the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) discussing draft legislation for the 2023 session to reform and update the 1935 NM Oil and Gas Act.

Find out what you can do to support managed decline of the fossil fuel industry and uplift the people and life in the Permian.

Presenters:

• Kayley Shoup, community organizer for Citizens Caring for the Future, Permian Basin
• Tannis Fox, Senior Attorney with Western Environmental Law Center