News & Updates

Citing hard evidence of the Lujan Grisham administration inappropriately pressuring the Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) to fast-track a new rule proposed and written by Big Oil to allow discharge of treated fracking waste to New Mexico’s rivers and streams,...

Conservation groups today challenged an inadequate environmental analysis from the Montana Department of Environmental Quality for the 175-megawatt methane gas plant near Laurel, Mont. In August, DEQ issued a supplemental final environmental assessment for the...

Today, The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the law when it authorized expanded livestock grazing on six allotments on the east side of Montana’s Paradise Valley in occupied grizzly bear habitat. The...

Newly revealed emails show the governor’s office and New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Sec. James Kenney are inappropriately directing members of the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission to advance an oil and gas industry proposal to allow the discharge...

Today, the Trump Administration continued its ongoing attacks on America's public lands by directing the elimination of the widely supported Public Lands Rule. These actions mark a dramatic escalation in the administration’s assault on public lands, prioritizing...

Today, environmental groups delivered a letter signed by 26 conservation organizations to members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources condemning the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act (H.R. 4776) in advance of today’s...

This afternoon, the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) sidestepped its responsibility under Montana’s Constitution to consider climate change impacts in its regulation of Montana gas and electric utilities. This comes in response to a petition from more than 40...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture today opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule, an extremely popular conservation policy enacted in 2001 to protect  more than 45 million acres of pristine lands in national forests across 36 states and...

Today, a coalition of environmental groups, Tribal leaders, and experts submitted testimony to the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission in support of long-overdue reforms to the state’s oil and gas rules to prevent “abandoned wells,” wells that operators abandon...

Today, the Western Environmental Law Center requested the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) reconsider holding a hearing on a rulemaking petition filed by an oil and gas industry-led organization that would allow treated fracking wastewater—called...