Feb 2, 2026 | News Release
Last week, Gov. Lujan Grisham issued a legislative message for House Bill (HB 207), sponsored by five Republican legislators and one Democrat, calling for the discharge of produced water to our state’s rivers, streams, and ground water. Produced water is a highly...
Jan 26, 2026 | News Release
Hope sits in the trenches, the last one standing, its teeth cracked, its knuckles bruised, its body broken; but its eyes are still gleaming with the light of a million lamps. Its heart is still beating Because even here, Even now, It knows that a better world ...
Jan 14, 2026 | News Release
Today, a coalition of wildlife advocates filed a complaint in the Federal District Court for the District of Montana against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat for wolverine, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species...
Dec 18, 2025 | News Release
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the SPEED Act (H.R.4776), a sweeping rollback of the nation’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The bill would accomplish deregulatory goals of Project 2025, the extreme right-wing policy...
Dec 11, 2025 | News Release
In response to a lawsuit by conservation groups, a federal court today struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log more than 16,500 acres of pine forests just outside Yellowstone National Park in the Custer Gallatin National Forest. The decision found the agency...
Nov 20, 2025 | News Release
Today, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources is set to vote on the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act (H.R. 4776). The Western Environmental Law Center urges members of the committee to vote no on this deceptively titled...
Nov 19, 2025 | News Release
Today Bull Mountain Land Alliance and Northern Plains Resource Council, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, challenged the Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) over the agency’s practice of approving coal mine permit changes behind closed...
Nov 19, 2025 | News Release
Six organizations sent a letter to the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), warning that at least 5,033 oil and gas leases — covering nearly 4 million acres — may now be legally invalid. The letter asks the agency to halt all new leasing and...
Nov 17, 2025 | Climate & Energy
Public Comment Highlights After Oil Conservation Commission Hearing Conclusion Context & Background From October 20 through November 6, the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) held a public hearing on proposed rules to modernize oil and gas bonding and...
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