Media advisory: Oil and gas industry takes another swing at convincing Water Quality Control Commission to allow risky wastewater discharge to NM waters

Apr 8, 2026 | News Release

Next week, on April 14, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) will consider a motion from an industry-backed group to start yet another rulemaking to allow the discharge of “treated” toxic oil and gas wastewater to state waters. In November 2025, the...

New Mexico Indigenous, community, conservation groups cry foul at 7-day Easter scoping comment period for Chaco oil, gas buffer analysis

Apr 7, 2026 | News Release

A coalition of New Mexico Indigenous, community, and conservation groups submitted scoping comments today opposing the Trump administration’s process to re-evaluate a 10-mile buffer surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park where new oil and gas and other...

New Mexico regulators near final rules strengthening oil and gas bonding and cleanup

Apr 6, 2026 | News Release

Parties in the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) case to modernize oil and gas clean up and bonding rules filed their final post-hearing briefs on Friday, March 20, a key step as the OCC prepares to decide whether to update decades-old financial safeguards...

Historic funding for wildlife passes Oregon Legislature, heads to Gov. Kotek for signature

Mar 4, 2026 | News Release

Moments ago, the Oregon Senate passed HB 4134, also known as “1.25% for Wildlife,” marking its bipartisan passage in both chambers of the Oregon Legislature. This landmark bill now heads to Gov. Kotek’s desk to be signed into law. A broad coalition of conservation,...

Lawsuit challenges Montana’s Bull Mountains Coal Mine expansion, Trump’s sham energy emergency 

Mar 3, 2026 | News Release

Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today over its approval of a major expansion of the Bull Mountains Coal Mine in Montana. The U.S. Office of Surface Mining approved the expansion last June without releasing a draft environmental impact statement to...

Conservation groups: Stibnite gold mine permit violates Clean Water Act, would harm Salmon River, threatened bull trout

Mar 2, 2026 | News Release

Last Friday, conservation groups filed a petition for review with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) challenging a permit the agency issued early this year to Perpetua Resources for the Stibnite Gold Project, a proposed mine 12 miles east of Yellow...

House Bill 207 would require discharge of oilfield wastewater to New Mexico waters, crops, industrial applications

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...

Executive Director Statement on Trump, ICE, and the Pathology of Domination

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 ...

Legal challenge: Feds more than a year overdue in designating much-needed critical habitat for wolverine

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...

House approves, Senate must reject fossil fuel giveaway SPEED Act

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...