Defending the West's Air
Air is essential to life.
Clean air is vital to all life on Earth. Unfortunately, many of our daily activities and the activities of industry release chemicals and particles into the air we breathe -- chemicals and particles that affect our health and the environment. Today’s air pollution clogs our lungs, impairs our views and is damaging the earth’s climate. The EPA estimates that about 141 million tons of pollution is emitted into the atmosphere each year in the United States.
It is urgent that we hold polluters accountable and clean up the air.
At the Western Environmental Law Center, we’re combining policy work and litigation to ensure we all have clean air to breathe. We are working strategically with partners to strengthen air quality standards and hold accountable polluters who are in violation.
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Safeguarding Wyoming Skies from Irresponsible Liquid Coal Production
- Coal to liquid plants promise the public unending power but, in fact, will deliver unending pollution in the form of hazardous air emissions, acid rain, smog, and potent climate forcing pollution.
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Banning Field Burning in Oregon
- UPDATE: Field Burning to End in Southern Willamette Valley!
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Reducing Greenhouse Gases in New Mexico
- In the summer of 2006, Governor Bill Richardson issued an executive order establishing greenhouse emission reduction targets for New Mexico. To achieve these targets, the order established the Climate Change Advisory Group (“CCAG”) to make recommendations to reduce greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions from the range of sources in New Mexico. WELC has been working with this advisory group to ensure that the public is represented.
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Protecting Public Health and the Environment from Big Dairies
- Confined animal feedlots, in this case Big Dairies with over 2,000 cows crammed into pens of a few acres, excrete tremendous amounts of manure (120 lbs/day per cow). WELC is working with several organizations to require the EPA and states to regulate these facilities to protect public health and the environment.
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Helping Stop the Desert Rock Coal-Fired Power Plant in Northwest New Mexico
- With the awareness of global warming, the time for new coal-fired power plants is over. The Western Environmental Law Center is helping a coalition of groups to stop this new plant.
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Tell state leaders to take action NOW on climate change!
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WELC Files Suit to Gain Release of Basic Public Documents Regarding the Proposed Desert Rock Power Plant Withheld by the BIA
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Citizens Bring Suit to Clean up Air Pollution from Industrial Dairies in Lower Yakima Valley
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Drilling the Climate: Colorado Oil and Gas Auction to Fuel Global Warming, BLM Ignoring its Responsibility to Protect Colorado’s Climate
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