May 30, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Environmental and Indigenous groups a part of the Greater Chaco Coalition are thanking Senator Martin Heinrich for facilitating Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s visit to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Tuesday, but are concerned that...
May 29, 2019 | News Release
In the wake of a legal victory by WildEarth Guardians, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Western Environmental Law Center, the U.S. government asked for and a federal judge ordered a climate review of the impacts of public lands fracking in Colorado and...
May 14, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced the Methane Waste and Prevention Act of 2019, a bill that would enact common-sense and cost-effective solutions to reduce methane waste and pollution from oil and gas operations on public lands, protect taxpayers,...
May 8, 2019 | News Release
More than 99.9 percent of people commenting on a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency proposal to reauthorize sodium cyanide in wildlife-killing devices called M-44s support a ban on these “cyanide bombs,” according to an analysis released today. Cyanide bombs...
May 7, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
A federal appeals court today held that the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) illegally approved oil and gas drilling and fracking in the Greater Chaco region of New Mexico, a landscape sacred to Tribes throughout the American Southwest and...
May 6, 2019 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today delivered a potentially fatal blow to the Jordan Cove LNG project and the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline which has faced fierce opposition for more than a decade by a grassroots coalition of impacted...
May 1, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Underscoring the need for urgent landscape protection, on Saturday April 27, members of the State Land Office Chaco Working Group including representatives of the Tri-Chapters of the Navajo Nation and All Pueblo Council of Governors gathered at Counselor Chapter House...
Apr 9, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Members of the Greater Chaco Coalition are applauding New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and New Mexico Congressman Ben Ray Lujan and Congresswoman Deb Haaland for re-introducing the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019 in the U.S....
Apr 8, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revealed that 131 Mexican gray wolves survive in the wilds of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. The annual count shows a small increase of 14 individuals from last year’s total documented count of 117....