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Carlsbad-area activists partner with Chaco Canyon groups to study impacts of oil and gas

“These symptoms are consistent with repeated exposure to PM 2.5 and the elevated levels of formaldehyde,” she said. “The health risks from elevated PM 2.5 and the formaldehyde emissions is significant and needs to be mitigate. Chemical toxicity in humans can occur within minutes.”

'It doesn't feel like home anymore." Locals fight oil and gas' impact on Carlsbad area

“At some point, you’ve got to think it has to do with what’s going on around us,” Shoup said of the rash of cancer diagnoses she noticed when returning to her hometown. “It was becoming too many.”

Groups seek federal oil & gas leasing reform

Biden's public land conservation plan could have big impacts in New Mexico, organizers say

“In Carlsbad, we have so much to conserve here just in terms of our rivers and the land around us. It’s somewhat threatened by oil and gas,” Shoup said. “To have this plan as a goalpost is very exciting. As people in the community begin to organize, it will be great to have the federal government behind us.”

Oil and gas industry worried New Mexico's emission controls could imperil small operators

“As frontline community members in the Permian Basin, we see and feel the effects of oil and gas pollution in Southeast New Mexico every day,” she said. “We are encouraged that the New Mexico Environment Department is taking action to hold the oil and gas industry accountable to clean up its act.”