Oct 22, 2025 | News Release
10(j) rule identified one possible source of wolves, not a mandated population Denver, CO – According to a CBS News report, former congressman Greg Lopez – alongside livestock industry groups – sent a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service claiming that...
Oct 16, 2025 | News Release
With $1.6 billion in liabilities at stake, New Mexicans back common-sense reform to protect communities A new statewide poll shows nearly 9 in 10 New Mexicans (89%) support requiring oil and gas corporations to pay the full cost of plugging wells. This overwhelming...
Sep 29, 2025 | News Release
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,...
Sep 29, 2025 | News Release
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...
Sep 17, 2025 | News Release
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...
Sep 16, 2025 | News Release
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...
Sep 10, 2025 | News Release
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...
Sep 10, 2025 | News Release
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...
Sep 2, 2025 | News Release
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...
Aug 27, 2025 | News Release
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...