"I pledge to vote against all new fossil fuel infrastructure."
"New Mexico relies on the funding provided in the FAST Act in order to improve our transportation system."
"I intend to lead a New Mexico where we take our environmental destiny into our own hands."
"Unfortunately, we are dealing with a president who has slashed funding for programs to protect intact ecosystems."
"Instead, President Trump wants to expand drilling and logging across precious and fragile landscapes."
"He has been so oppressive about this that the Interior Department carried on with the permitting process for oil and gas drilling even while the Federal Government was shut down."
"I am a member of Laguna Pueblo, and we had a bartering economy until the early 1950s, when the uranium mine, the Jackpile Mine opened in Laguna, and it was home to the largest open-pit mine in the wor..."
"So, in hindsight, would we have allowed the largest uranium mine to open on Laguna? I think that people would think twice about that."
"I don't want any New Mexican to go without an opportunity to support their families."
"I know what it is like to be poor."
"But I also feel that the health effects that this industry is having on people's health, you can't get that back many times either."
"I would love for us to explore other ways for folks to make a living."