Sep 12, 2018 | News Release, Victory! Protecting Wild Coho Salmon from Suction Dredge Mining in the Rogue River Basin
Portland, Oregon – Today the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a new Oregon state law banning motorized mining operations, such as suction dredging, in streams that support runs of wild salmon and steelhead trout. The court rejected miners’ assertions that...
Aug 30, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears
MISSOULA, Mont. —Today, a U.S. District Court judge granted wildlife advocates’ motion for a temporary restraining order to block planned grizzly bear trophy hunts in Idaho and Wyoming for at least 14 days. This came after a hearing regarding a high-profile case...
Aug 28, 2018 | News Release
Prineville, OR—In a preliminary ruling today, Judge Patricia Sullivan rejected a U.S. Forest Service plan to add 137 miles of off road vehicle trails in central Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest through old-growth forest. The plan would have expanded the Forest’s...
Jul 26, 2018 | News Release
In this 50th anniversary year of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, river advocates, fishermen, conservationists, and members of the Oregon congressional delegation lamented the Trump administration’s decision to abandon protections for the nationally significant...
Jun 14, 2018 | News Release, Protecting the Santa Fe National Forest from Fracking
In a victory for New Mexico’s air, climate, and water, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico today rejected a 2015 oil and gas lease sale covering 19,788 acres of oil and gas leases on the Santa Fe National Forest. The Bureau of Land Management...
May 23, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Statement from Diné Citizens Against Ruining Our Environment, the Western Environmental Law Center, San Juan Citizens Alliance, Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter, WildEarth Guardians, and Natural Resources Defense Council: Taos, NM – New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and...
May 15, 2018 | News Release
Great Falls – Today, WildEarth Guardians, the Montana Environmental Information Center, and three local landowners moved to protect Montana’s clean water and climate from oil and gas drilling and fracking. The groups, represented by Western Environmental Law Center...
Apr 26, 2018 | News Release
DENVER— Conservation groups today sued Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Bureau of Land Management for approving new leases to allow fracking on more than 45,000 acres in western Colorado, including within communities and within a half-mile of a K-12 public...
Apr 25, 2018 | Keeping 11 Billion Tons of Dirty Coal in the Ground in the Powder River Basin, News Release
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – Today, the Bureau of Land Management in Montana deferred all 223 parcels subject to an oil and gas lease sale planned for June 12. The decision to postpone the lease sale results from a court decision last month finding the Miles City (Montana)...
Apr 9, 2018 | News Release
Today, the Washington Department of Ecology sided with Center for Food Safety and numerous other community and conservation groups, and denied shellfish growers a permit to spray imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid, on shellfish beds on Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor, in...
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