The Western Environmental Law Center is a non-profit public interest law firm that
works to protect and restore western wildlands and advocates for healthy
environments on behalf of communities throughout the West.
Coalition challenges risky foreign energy project:
On behalf of environmentalists, local landowners and fishermen WELC
is challenging a new LNG terminal and pipeline that threatens private
property and irreplaceable natural resources in Oregon.
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Climate Alert:
WELC expands efforts to preserve the right of states, local governments, organizations and individuals to take effective climate action.
Our objective: Ensure that federal climate legislation preserves and does not limit the ability of states, communities, organizations and individuals to further reduce emissions beyond the national cap, through complementary emission-reduction actions undertaken on their own initiative and at their own expense. Read more.
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In a recent announcement, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack stated that the U.S. Forest Service will rewrite a Bush administration logging rule.
The decision came in response to a federal judge's ruling last June that the Bush administration acted illegally when it removed environmental safeguards to boost timber production.
After receiving news of the announcement, Western Environmental Law Center staff attorney, Pete Frost had this to say: "Our hope is the administration will reconvene the committee of
scientists like it did for the 1982 rule, which was the last time a
solid conservation rule emerged from this rule-making process."
The Western Environmental Law Center has worked, through three successive court challenges, to ensure the National Forest Management Act's environmental protections remain strong.
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