Jun 2, 2017 | News Release
Contacts: John Mellgren, Western Environmental Law Center, 541-359-0990, mellgren@westernlaw.org Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity, 707-779-9613, aweiss@biologicaldiversity.org Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials late Thursday released a...
Jun 1, 2017 | News Release
Contact: Erik Schlenker-Goodrich, Western Environmental Law Center, 575-770-1295, eriksg@westernlaw.org Today, President Trump stated he will withdraw the United States from the landmark...
Feb 27, 2017 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest
Late last Friday, local and partner conservation groups intervened in two lawsuits to protect the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument from challenges brought by timber interests. The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is one of the most biodiverse places in North...
Feb 21, 2017 | News Release, Washington State Sustainable Agriculture Campaign
Location: Seattle On Feb. 17, 2017, a coalition of environmental groups filed an appeal with the Washington state Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) challenging the Department of Ecology’s waste discharge permits for concentrated animal feeding operations...
Feb 10, 2017 | News Release
Payette National Forest will assess how to protect bull trout critical habitat from motorized use Location: Boise In response to a lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, the Payette National Forest in west central...
Feb 3, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Misguided ideological frenzy could claim innocent bystander In a close vote, the House of Representatives voted today to repeal a popular, common-sense Bureau of Management rule limiting methane waste by oil and gas companies on public and tribal lands. This was made...
Jan 19, 2017 | News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest, Washington State Sustainable Agriculture Campaign
Location: Seattle Today, a coalition environmental, public health, social justice and public interest advocates and organizations representing tens of thousands of Washingtonians responded to the Washington State Department of Ecology’s issuance of a revised...
Jan 17, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Rule Would Reduce Egregious Methane Waste, Benefit Taxpayers, Communities, Public Health Casper, Wyo. Sixteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans applaud a decision issued yesterday by Wyoming...
Jan 13, 2017 | News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest, Victory! Protecting Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers from Mining
Administration acts to protect steelhead, wild salmon for decades Location: Portland, Ore. This week, the Obama Administration took strong administrative action to protect an area in southwest Oregon’s Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest with the highest...
Jan 11, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin, Regional Resilience: Southern Rockies
Navajo Chapter Presidents, Tribal members, and New Mexico Water Protectors call on BLM State Office to Cancel January Auction Location: Santa Fe, NM On January 25, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is scheduled to hold an online auction of 843 acres of public...
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