AGUA ES VIDA: VICTORIES AND CHALLENGES FOR CLEAN WATER IN NEW MEXICO

Nov 19, 2025 | Wildlands

AGUA ES VIDA: VICTORIES AND CHALLENGES FOR CLEAN WATER IN NEW MEXICO In arid New Mexico, protecting clean water is essential to communities, agriculture, industry, and the wild. We were crushed when the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Clean Water Act, removing...

VICTORY AGAINST HUGE, MISGUIDED OREGON LOGGING PROJECT!

Nov 19, 2025 | Wildlands

VICTORY AGAINST HUGE, MISGUIDED OREGON LOGGING PROJECT! This spring, we won an important victory against a controversial public lands logging plan. The “N126” project threatened a wide expanse of mature forest stretching west of Eugene into the steep slopes of the...

Community Voices Demand Action: New Mexicans Speak Out for Bonding Reform

Nov 17, 2025 | Climate & Energy

Public Comment Highlights After Oil Conservation Commission Hearing Conclusion Context & Background From October 20 through November 6, the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) held a public hearing on proposed rules to modernize oil and gas bonding and...

Wolves Belong

Dec 12, 2024 | Wildlife

As morning light arrives just behind the hills of Lamar Valley in Yellowstone National Park, a distant song greets the gathering crowd. A hundred determined watchers bearing scopes and their trusty cameras line one plateau and another, eager to catch their first...

Wolverines listed as “threatened” under Endangered Species Act after 20-year conservation effort

Nov 29, 2023 | News Release, Victory! ESA Protection for Wolverine

Today, after more than 20 years of advocacy by wildlife conservation groups, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) found that wolverines warrant federal protections as a threatened species. Numbering only about 300 in the contiguous U.S., snow-dependent...

Advocates file lawsuit to overturn Trump-era permit to kill spotted owls

Nov 9, 2023 | News Release, Wildlands

The Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, challenged a 50-year U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) permit issued to Sierra Pacific Industries, the nation’s largest private landowner, to “take”...

Interior Sec. Haaland protects Chaco Canyon from oil, gas drilling

Jun 2, 2023 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking

In response to Interior Sec. Deb Haaland’s decision today to prohibit new federal oil and gas leasing within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, members of the Greater Chaco Coalition called on the Biden administration to go further and end all new...

Landmark court ruling will protect water sources, ranchers near Bull Mountains underground coal mine

Feb 13, 2023 | Bull Mountains Mine Expansion, News Release

A federal judge in Montana District Court has halted the mining of federal coal at Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountains Underground Coal Mine near Roundup, pending a thorough analysis of the mine’s impacts on ranchers, vital water sources, and the surrounding...

Federal wildlife-killing program challenged in Montana

Jan 18, 2023 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears, Wildlife

Today, four conservation organizations challenged the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Wildlife Services predator killing program in Montana. The legal challenge also includes the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service for approving the program’s killing and...

Legal complaint: Signal Peak Energy coal mine has damaged and destroyed Bull Mountains water sources

Dec 14, 2022 | Bull Mountains Mine Expansion, News Release

Conservation groups have filed a formal complaint with state and federal agencies against Signal Peak Energy, a criminally-convicted coal company operating an underground coal mine in the Bull Mountains just north of Billings, Montana. The complaint cites evidence of...