Jan 18, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today marks the date when oil and gas companies operating on federal lands would have had to begin taking specific steps to reduce methane waste under an Obama-era rule adopted by the Bureau of Land Management in late 2016. However, the new administration late last...
Jan 11, 2018 | News Release
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intent to begin the process to remove Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled Canada lynx in the contiguous U.S. This move by one of the most anti-wildlife, anti-science, climate-denying administrations...
Jan 10, 2018 | News Release
In response to the threat of litigation by two environmental groups, a federal wildlife-killing program has agreed in a letter to stop killing beavers, river otter, muskrat and mink in Oregon. Wildlife Services, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, also agreed...
Jan 5, 2018 | News Release
State will likely allow increased oil and gas pollution despite known effects on public health, climate, environment. On Jan. 5, a large group of New Mexico citizen groups submitted comments to the New Mexico Environment Department on its revised draft general...
Dec 21, 2017 | News Release
Just over one year ago, we made a commitment to you: to wield the power of the law to vigorously defend the American West’s public lands, wildlife, and communities. We’re proud to report to you that we’ve made great progress. Leveraging the essential right of...
Dec 19, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
After defeats in court and in Congress, the Trump administration is now attempting to suspend for one year almost all of the requirements of its Methane Waste Prevention Rule that would reduce waste of publicly owned natural gas by oil and gas companies. Today,...
Dec 7, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Tomorrow, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management will finalize a one-year suspension of a regulation adopted just a year ago to reduce methane waste on public lands. This is the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration and...
Nov 29, 2017 | News Release
HELENA – Today on behalf of the Montana Environmental Information Center, the Western Environmental Law Center sent a notice of intent to sue Hecla Mining Company over continuing water pollution from the Troy Mine in northwestern Montana. The copper and silver mine,...
Nov 9, 2017 | News Release, Speeding the Transition From Coal in the Southwest
PHOENIX – Navajo, regional and national conservation groups today filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to continue their challenge of a 25-year extension of coal operations at Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo Mine. They appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court...
Nov 6, 2017 | Colorado Wildlife Services Challenge, News Release
Denver, CO— Today, in response to a lawsuit challenging its activities in Colorado, Wildlife Services, the federal wildlife killing program, agreed to complete a new environmental analysis and end the use of many of its most controversial killing tools in the interim....
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