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...
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...
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...
Oct 27, 2022 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Today, a group of Diné and conservation groups challenged the Biden administration’s approval of fracking on nearly 45,000 acres—70 square miles—of the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico. In April, the groups entered a legal agreement with the Biden...
Sep 29, 2022 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit heard oral arguments related to the Trump administration’s illegal approval of more than 370 drilling permits in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico. Attorneys with the Biden administration defended...
Apr 5, 2022 | Bull Mountains Mine Expansion, News Release
A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ panel ruled Trump’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) wrongly approved an expansion of Signal Peak’s Bull Mountain Underground Coal Mine near Roundup, Montana. OSM largely ignored the fact that the proposed 175-million-ton...
Nov 15, 2021 | Climate & Energy, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
President Biden and Secretary Haaland offer new promise to finally address legacies of sacrifice zones and environmental justice for the Greater Chaco region Members of the Greater Chaco Coalition are applauding President Joe Biden and Department of the Interior...
Jul 16, 2020 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
A federal judge late yesterday reinstated the Bureau of Land Management’s 2016 methane waste rule, aimed at protecting people and the climate from methane waste and pollution from oil and gas extraction on public lands. The ruling is the third defeat for the Trump...
May 1, 2020 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington Field Office and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) denied requests to suspend the public comment period on the controversial drilling plan for the Greater Chaco region, instead the agencies are planning to hold 4...
Apr 30, 2020 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin
A large coalition of New Mexico community, faith, tribal, and environmental advocates today were disappointed by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s (PRC) decision to delay approval of two very low cost solar and battery storage projects that would partially...
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