Gabe Vasquez

< Back to directory

City of Las Cruces

City Councilor + Candidate for New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional District

expertise:

Food + farming, Groundwater, Racial + environmental justice, Recreation, Water access, Water rights + policies

pronouns: He/Him

state: NM

languages: English, Spanish

race + ethnicity: Latina/e/o/x or Hispanic (e.g., Latin American, Central American, South American), Mexican American, Mexican, or Chicana/o/x

Talk to me about: environmental justice, drought in the southwest, climate change, racial equity, water policy, outdoor recreation, conservation, 30x30, federal public lands policy, and municipal water issues.

share Gabe's profile:

Utilities + infrastructure

From renewable energy to green chile, New Mexico’s rural communities receive USDA funds – NM Political Report

Monday, New Mexico’s congressional delegation announced $35 million in federal grants for healthcare, agriculture and renewable energy projects in rural communities in the state. The

Water quality

Water pollution in colonies on the south-west border is a cause for concern

Arsenic and lead are widely suspected in most frontier colonies in South Texas [from Texas News]

View of the Rio Grande, the fifth longest U.S. river which provides water for 6 million people and irrigates 2 million acres of land, at the point in the South Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., where it ran dry in August for the first time in 40 years during the U.S. Southwest’s worst mega drought in 1,200 years, which climate scientists blame on human-caused global warming

Water rights + policies

New Mexico House race wrangles oil and gas, climate change – Reuters

The candidates vying for a New Mexico U.S. House seat are clashing over fossil fuel industry jobs and climate change, setting up voters to decide