Jun 23, 2025 | News Release
In an extreme overreach that will destroy treasured national forests, the Trump administration today announced plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, a popular, science-based provision limiting commercial logging and associated road construction in undisturbed...
Jun 16, 2025 | News Release
Today, the Oregon Senate voted to pass HB 3932A to tap into nature’s free waterway restoration service and the state animal: the American beaver. Once Gov. Kotek signs the bill into law, it will close beaver hunting and trapping on public lands waterways that the...
Jun 10, 2025 | News Release
The president of the United States has deployed the military against Californians in a divisive, unjustified, and unprecedented action. He has also threatened the use of “heavy force” against Americans who protest a military parade in Washington, D.C., on June...
Jun 6, 2025 | News Release
The Department of Interior today announced the approval of an approximately 50-million-ton expansion of the notorious Bull Mountains Underground Coal Mine near Roundup, Montana. The Trump administration approved the expansion without a draft environmental impact...
Jun 4, 2025 | News Release
Today, wildlife advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) in federal court for denying Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the Sonoran desert tortoise in 2022. The Desert Tortoise Council, Tucson Herpetological Society, Western...
May 21, 2025 | News Release
Conservation groups intervened today in a lawsuit brought by the timber industry and counties seeking to strip northern spotted owls of protections for their critical habitat across millions of acres of forests in California, Oregon and Washington. The industry...
May 19, 2025 | News Release
Today, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and The Conservation Angler, represented by attorneys at the Western Environmental Law Center, notified Tacoma Power the groups intend to challenge in court the utility’s failure to provide safe and effective downstream passage past...
May 14, 2025 | News Release
The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) today adopted a rule that prohibits the discharge of “produced water” to New Mexico’s ground and surface waters. Produced water is a waste byproduct of oil and gas operations and contains hundreds of known and...
Apr 11, 2025 | News Release
Oregon and Washington released the results of state wolf surveys for 2024 this week, presenting a contrast in how the species is recovering in the Pacific Northwest. In Oregon, wolf population increased 14% in 2024 over 2023 levels while in Washington, wolf population...
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