Jun 24, 2021 | Climate & Energy
ABOUT THE WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) is a leading nonprofit public interest environmental law firm. WELC has been celebrated as an Outside Magazine Best Place to Work, Oregon Business Magazine Best Nonprofit, a Law360...
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...
Apr 17, 2020 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin
Groups today delivered a resounding message to the New Mexico State Land Office: To protect New Mexico’s economy and environment, the oil and gas industry must be reined in. The New Mexico State Land Office held an online hearing today to adopt an emergency rule that...
Apr 2, 2020 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin
A coalition of groups yesterday appealed to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to suspend a proposal to sell public lands for fracking in light of the COVID-19 crisis and the economic collapse of the oil and gas industry. In a formal administrative appeal (also called...
Apr 1, 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 welcomed the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s (PRC) decision to approve Public Service Company of New Mexico’s (PNM) request to abandon or exit the San Juan Generating...
Mar 23, 2020 | Climate & Energy
Keystone XL: Defending the Right to Protest WELC and our partners at the ACLU of Montana and the Bahr Law Offices have reason to suspect the state of Montana is planning to crack down on people peacefully protesting the Keystone XL pipeline with the same invasive and...
Mar 2, 2020 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Farmington Field Office and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) released their long-awaited Mancos-Gallup Resource Management Plan Amendment for the Greater Chaco region on Friday, February 28, 2019, embittering Greater Chaco Coalition...
Nov 18, 2019 | News Release, Rosebud Mine Challenge
Today a group of concerned Montanans filed a legal challenge to protect the climate and water resources from destructive coal mining practices in eastern Montana. The groups are challenging the federal Office of Surface Mining’s (OSM) misguided approval of an enormous...
