Aug 29, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed to eliminate direct regulation of methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas, from the EPA’s New Source Performance Standards. In New Mexico, this would mean that 4,700 new and existing wells would...
Aug 28, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, advocacy groups in New Mexico concerned about methane waste from the oil and gas industry released a set of core principles to guide the state as it begins its next step in developing a rule to prevent waste and safeguard taxpayers, public health, the climate,...
Aug 1, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
In the wake of a federal appeals court win in May, a coalition today filed a new lawsuit and request for a restraining order (link will be added here when available) to defend the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico from illegal oil and gas drilling. Today’s...
Jul 1, 2019 | Climate & Energy
Protecting NEPA – The Environmental Magna Carta The U.S. Forest Service has proposed a rule to overhaul its environmental analysis procedures under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which will dramatically curtail the role the public and science play...
May 30, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Environmental and Indigenous groups a part of the Greater Chaco Coalition are thanking Senator Martin Heinrich for facilitating Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s visit to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Tuesday, but are concerned that...
May 21, 2019 | Climate & Energy
Protecting Public Access to Montana’s Crazy Mountains The Crazy Mountains in Montana are public lands, accessed via public National Forest System trails dating to 1925. The U.S. Forest Service has maintained and managed these trails, which are depicted on all...
May 14, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced the Methane Waste and Prevention Act of 2019, a bill that would enact common-sense and cost-effective solutions to reduce methane waste and pollution from oil and gas operations on public lands, protect taxpayers,...
May 7, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
A federal appeals court today held that the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) illegally approved oil and gas drilling and fracking in the Greater Chaco region of New Mexico, a landscape sacred to Tribes throughout the American Southwest and...
May 1, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Underscoring the need for urgent landscape protection, on Saturday April 27, members of the State Land Office Chaco Working Group including representatives of the Tri-Chapters of the Navajo Nation and All Pueblo Council of Governors gathered at Counselor Chapter House...
Apr 9, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Members of the Greater Chaco Coalition are applauding New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and New Mexico Congressman Ben Ray Lujan and Congresswoman Deb Haaland for re-introducing the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019 in the U.S....
