SANTA FE, N.M.— A coalition of 48 environmental, community and Indigenous organizations launched an ad campaign in New Mexico this week calling on U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich to withdraw his sponsorship of an anti-environmental permitting bill.

The groups, representing tens of thousands of New Mexicans, published full page ads in the state’s three largest newspapers warning that Heinrich’s bill would fast track construction of data centers, promote fossil fuel extraction and threaten New Mexico’s heritage. The ads urge residents to call Heinrich’s office to voice their opposition.

“Sen. Heinrich’s bill would gut our nation’s landmark environmental protections, all to give corporate polluters even more power over our land, water, air and communities,” said Gail Evans, a senior attorney and New Mexico climate director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “This dangerous bill would make it harder for people to defend themselves and their neighbors against fossil fuel projects and data centers proposed in their backyards. Sen. Heinrich should not be siding with billionaires and dirty industry instead of his New Mexico constituents.”

The permitting bill — which Heinrich co-sponsored alongside fellow Democrat Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Republicans Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Sen. Mike Lee — would roll back key provisions in the Clean Water Act, National Environmental Policy Act, National Historic Preservation Act and Endangered Species Act. It would turn federal approvals into a rubber-stamp for both data centers and the fossil fuel infrastructure that powers them, all but ensuring projects will be approved regardless of community opposition.

The ad, which ran Sunday in the Albuquerque Journal and is running today in the Santa Fe New Mexican and Las Cruces Sun-News, is part of a groundswell of opposition in New Mexico and across the country to the permitting bill.

The bill’s so-called “project certainty” provisions would lock in near-permanent fossil fuel dominance and hand extractive industries control of public lands into the future.

The Senate is expected to hold is first procedural vote on the bill Nov. 9, just days after the midterm elections that could fundamentally shift the balance of power in Congress.