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Elaine Cimino

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Environmental justice and art advocate

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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Prove a NEPA violation—and the project can still proceed during corrections. Stop the proposed bill’s restrictions on community challenges. See Section 1110 and page numbers in the graphic. Call Heinrich: 202-224-5521 Whitehouse: 202-224-2921 Share. Demand removal.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The inside-the-newsroom account of a 22 yo reporter, her 20 yo editor, a 23-month investigation, and the decision to publish the names of the Cornell 7 on the front page—the spark that lit the fire. The Student Journalists Who Never Let the Cornell Assault Case Go www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Students at Cornell Daily Sun Pursued Sexual Assault Case for Two Years (Gift Article)
The student newspaper, The Cornell Daily Sun, covered the allegations of rape at a fraternity party since they were first made in 2024 and led the reporting on the case.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 30/09/2026
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Welcome to Lake Castelion, on the shores of Project Ranger. The West Mesa’s newest waterfront attraction: muddy floodwater beside a missile factory. The project’s construction-stormwater permit number is NMR1007JS. Where is the enforcement by EPA or NMED? A permit on paper only
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kenofseattle @kenofseattle.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Adv. Atmos. Sci. @aasjournal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
What happens in the stratosphere can shape weather far below. The 2024/25 Arctic winter saw an exceptionally strong polar vortex, a major SSW and an Arctic Oscillation minimum of −5. Explore the study: doi.org/10.1007/s003... #AAS #Arctic #Atmosphere #Science
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Project Jupiter’s reported loan trouble raises a blunt question: if the AI boom breaks, who pays? New Mexico needs disclosure of SIC’s combined AI exposure, real security for data center grid costs, & funded obligations for workers and site restoration elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/new-mexico...
https://elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/new-mexico-and-an-ai-financing-crash?r=281p2&utm_medium=ios
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The Great Pit of Carkoon, West Mesa ABQ In Star Wars, the Sarlacc waits beneath the sand. Near Project Ranger, the danger is in plain sight: after days of rain, the roads are catching floodwater like basin Project Ranger is the Sarlacc in this picture: a massive development consuming the West Mesa
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Project Ranger is still under construction, but hazardous-material shipments have already been recorded and weapons production is approaching. No full public hearing. No public chemical inventory. No independent EIS. Promises are not oversight. substack.com/@elainecimin...
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Castelion Cannot Declare Project Ranger Safe
The public’s right to know has already been violated. A full hearing must occur before operations begin.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
NM’s Water Quality Control Commission begins its Triennial Review Sept. 28. Speak out for stronger PFAS, monitoring and environmental-justice protections—in writing, in person or online. Article elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/new-mexico... Comment: nmed.commentinput.com?id=EY6A3ZU4B
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New Mexico’s Waters Need the Public’s Voice
The 2026 Triennial Review will determine whether state water-quality standards keep pace with PFAS, emerging contaminants, wetlands, pollution, and environmental justice
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New Mexico is building a public-risk machine: sovereign wealth moves through opaque private funds while taxpayers finance IRBs, PILOTs, water, power, roads and long-term liabilities. No agency produces the complete accounting. substack.com/@elainecimin...
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Project Jupiter is already 26% complete, but its air-permit proceeding is stayed. Only 12.6% of its construction workers live in Doña Ana County. Oracle and Bloom made major new claims—but commissioners failed to demand proof. elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/project-ju... The report—
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Project Jupiter’s Developers Made Major Disclosures. Commissioners Failed to Follow the Evidence.
Oracle and Bloom Energy revealed how far construction has advanced, how few local workers have been hired and how much remains unverified.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
⚠️ NEW PRC RULES THREATEN PUBLIC PARTICIPATION At the very moment private-equity firms are seeking greater control over New Mexico’s essential utilities, the Public Regulation Commission is making it harder for the public to be heard. #NMPRC www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...
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Environmental groups say new utility commission rules will limit public input
Some have raised concerns that new rules follow a trend of the Public Regulation Commission stifling public participation.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
We were never meaningfully informed. We were never given a hearing on the complete Project Ranger proposal. We were never asked for our consent. The people are not obstacles to economic development. elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/project-ra... We are the sovereign.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Londoners Find ‘Horrendous’ Cracks in Their Homes After Successive Heat Waves - Insurance claims tied to subsidence hit a record last quarter $ #climatecrisis 1/2 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Londoners Find ‘Horrendous’ Cracks in Their Homes After Successive Heat Waves
Londoners are facing historic levels of subsidence risk after five successive heat waves dried out the clay soil on which much of the city is built.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TURN OFF THE TAP—A SECOND SUPREME COURT STAY HAS BEEN GRANTED! against Project Jupiter. First tonight, the Court stayed the air-quality permit proceeding. Second, the Court has stayed drilling authorization that allowed water to be used for construction. Stop the air permit. Turn off the tap.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Golden Dome Secrecy Poses Challenge for Estimating Costs www.airandspaceforces.com/golden-dome-...
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Golden Dome Secrecy Poses Challenge for Estimating Costs
Independent analysts have struggled to project a cost for the Pentagon's Golden Dome program due to secrecy around the architecture.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NM is committing public wealth, tax incentives, land, water, electricity and infrastructure to major private development without a system that examines the whole public commitment before decisions become irreversible elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/beyond-bla...
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New Mexico has lived through the consequences of previous national-security projects. elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/new-mexico... The article examines how the pieces are coming together—and why NM is rapidly becoming the physical infrastructure of America’s new military-AI arms race.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
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Akshat Rathi @akshatrathi.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
UK's political consensus on climate has fractured, as climate impacts are becoming not just ignorable but unbearable. I spoke to @carolinelucas.bsky.social about bringing climate action back up the political priority list. The Zero podcast interview: 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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When Climate Change Threatens National Security
Nature collapse is one of the greatest national security challenges we face, according to Caroline Lucas, the former head of the UK's Green party.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
4 killed in NM by electronic weapons development How many-more will die? wildfires, environmental degradation? These grifters will burn this country to ground. The real question is when will people wake up? Hold accountable politicians who protect this status quo? open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...
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The Hidden Costs of Electronic Warfare 4 killed in NM
As New Mexico expands weapons testing and hypersonic development, the NTSB’s findings demand greater public accountability and oversight.
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Joshua Basseches @joshuabasseches.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Legislation is always going to be preferable to an executive order when it comes to protecting the public from powerful corporate interests: www.eenews.net/articles/ny-...
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NY Democratic lawmakers, environmental groups continue push for data center rules
Lawmakers still want a role in addressing voter concerns about data centers as Gov. Kathy Hochul touts her executive order that includes a temporary
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
substack.com/@elainecimin... The same deceptive system with no enforcement
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Project Mars Is Not an Exception. It Is the System.
How Segmentation, Secrecy, and Failed Enforcement Are Replacing Transparent Government
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
If you believe that communities deserve transparency, accountability, and independent environmental review before hazardous operations proceed, please add your name. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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PETITION FOR IMMEDIATE PUBLIC HEALTH, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND PUBLIC SAFETY PROTECTIONS FROM PROJECT RANGER
To: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, the New Mexico Legislature, the New Mexico Environment Department, the New Mexico Department of Health, the New Mexico State Land Office, the New Mexico Economic D...
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
SIGN THE PETITION Protect Our Water, Air, Health & Safety from Castelion’s Project Ranger  docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... The petition calls on state. local officials ensure that public health, drinking water, air quality, environmental protections, public safety come before industrial expansion.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Who is really governing New Mexico? The people—or las movidas? Today’s developments should concern anyone who believes public institutions exist to serve the public. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When does a democracy begin to fail? Is it when a law is broken? Or when the laws created to protect the public are quietly ignored—and the institutions responsible for enforcing them fail to act? elainecimino652909.substack.com/p/when-accou...
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Woken at 4am by wildfire smoke filling the house. Southeast Wales, one of the UK's wettest regions, is shrouded in smoke today. You can feel it in your lungs. The climate crisis is now.
A map of the UK from firemap.live shows out-of-control fires burning in Northwest and Southeast Wales.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
substack.com/@elainecimin... The unexpected withdrawal of Lt Gov nominee on the Dem ticket has created an opportunity for the Democratic State Central Committee to reflect on what kind of leadership the party intends to offer NM at one of the most consequential moments And this ? is playing out NM.
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The Democratic Crossroads: Why New Mexico's Lieutenant Governor Vote Has Become a National Test of Environmental Justice, Corporate Power, and Public Accountability
The Democratic State Central Committee's selection of New Mexico's next lieutenant governor is a referendum on the direction of the Democratic Party
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Info on how to submit Public comment apcg.org/chaco/ The feds announced it is seeking comments on a EA to revoke a 2023 order closing about 336,404 acres near Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico to future drilling and mining for 20 years. Such a reversal would eliminate a 10-mile buffer.
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Preserving Chaco Canyon and the Greater Chaco Region – All Pueblo Council of Governors
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n... The U.S. Bureau of Land Management took another step this week to reopen federal lands surrounding the Chaco Culture National Historical Park to oil and gas drilling and other mineral extraction The two-week public comment period will end July 29. Shameful
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Tribes decry two-week comment period tied to BLM proposal to strip Chaco protections
The federal agency is seeking public comments on an environmental assessment for the proposed revocation of a 10-mile drilling buffer zone.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Sudden streamflow changes (e.g., regime shifts and extreme events) have been increasing with time across the continental United States. This is another signal of #climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Streamflow in the United States: Characteristics, trends, regime shifts, and extremes - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Streamflow in the United States: Characteristics, trends, regime shifts, and extremes
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention. Let it be known for all time that he knew exactly what Donald Trump was from the very beginning, and chose him over his country.” - Steve Schmidt
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Project Ranger is being framed as a jobs story but it is an environmental justice, civil rights story, and about who bears the costs. There has been no public hearings no questions about drinking water, poisoned aquifers, blast impacts, hearing loss, and clean air? open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
AI is no longer being sold as innovation. It is being framed as national security. That shift means more secrecy, less oversight, and fewer opportunities for public accountability. My latest essay: open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...
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The Securitization of Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure in New Mexico
National Security, Public Subsidies, and Democratic Accountability
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Why are venture-backed corporations receiving public subsidies while communities continue to struggle with water, food insecurity, healthcare needs, infrastructure demands, and other public priorities? please read and share 1-4 children of hungry in NM bit.ly/4ePG3IR
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Jaime Palter @jaimepalter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
🌊 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
America is running out of water My latest article, America's Great Water Collapse: The Ogallala and the Cost of Corporate Greed, examines how one of the largest groundwater reserves on Earth is being exhausted and what that means for the future of the American West open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Mayor Hull doesn’t respect constituents or democracy not the Governor for NM we need
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
If the rule of law can be ignored for climate protections, it can be ignored for anything. While AI data centers and weapons projects expand wo hearings, communities suffer the consequences. Nobody is safe when power operates without accountability. Fascists (centrists) autocrats come for everyone.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/elaineci... This essay connects the South Valley plastics fire, the Southern California chemical emergency, Project Ranger, military-industrial expansion, & the growing push to weaken environmental review & public oversight in the name of economic dev & “permitting reform.”
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Before The Next Fireball
The failure of cumulative risk review
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Corrupt governance open.substack.com/pub/elaineci... New Mexico faces worsening drought, groundwater stress, wildfire danger,& Rio Grande collapse — there is still no comprehensive EIS or regional groundwater accounting tied to Project Ranger. This is what end-stage extractivism looks like.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
substack.com/@elainecimin... New Mexicans are already living with the legacy of uranium mining, radioactive contamination, chromium plumes, PFAS, military-industrial pollution. Residents know projects like Project Ranger repeat that same pattern in working-class and majority minority communities.
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The SPEED Act Is Turning New Mexico Into a Sacrifice Zone
The New York Times Wants Faster Permitting.
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
open.substack.com/pub/elaineci... Project Ranger showing what “permitting reform” looks like before it becomes law—funding first, infrastructure next, and the public shut out while the risks are pushed onto our water, It’s happening now in New Mexico.
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Project Ranger Was the Blueprint — SPEED Act Without Reform
NO REVIEW. NO PUBLIC HEARING. VOICES SILENCED. WATER AT RISK
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Yet another paper finding that Direct Air Capture is an opportunity cost that increases air pollution and climate damage relative to spending the same money on clean, renewable energy. www.nature.com/articles/s44... Other papers web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j... web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/j...
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Direct air capture has substantial health and climate opportunity costs - Communications Sustainability
Renewable energy remains more cost effective for climate and health outcomes than direct air capture except under highly optimistic technology improvements, according to cost equivalent modeling acros...
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
SpaceX just got pulled into the biggest Weapons Program in U.S. history space4peace.org/spacex-just-...
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SpaceX just got pulled into the biggest Weapons Program in U.S. history
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Elaine Cimino @ecimino.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The system broke in April. Corrales lost irrigation water before the growing season even began. Project Ranger is building water infrastructure that’s already leaking. The future scarcity is here. And approving industrial demand without proving the water exists. open.substack.com/pub/elaineci...
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Project Ranger Meets a Dry Rio Grande River
There Is No Water Left to Pretend With
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