Dec 8, 2016 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin, Regional Resilience: Southern Rockies
Groups Appeal to Overturn U.S. Bureau of Land Management Plans to Auction Public, Tribal Lands to the Oil and Gas Industry Location: Santa Fe, NM Citing the dangers and destruction caused by unchecked fracking in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico, a...
Dec 3, 2016 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Groups Seek to Join Lawsuit to Oppose Challenges to the Standards Fifteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans took legal steps today to defend new standards that will reduce natural gas waste...
Nov 21, 2016 | News Release, Protecting Washington's Atmosphere as a Public Trust
Location: Seattle Youth petitioners are returning to court on Tuesday, November 22, 2016 for a hearing where Gov. Jay Inslee’s administration must show why it is not in contempt of the court’s prior order to protect the constitutional rights of the youth from climate...
Nov 16, 2016 | Fighting for Terry Tempest Williams' and Brooke Williams' Right to Buy Fossil Fuel Leases, News Release, Regional Resilience: Southern Rockies
Famed author and husband punished for common industry practice Location: Castle Valley, Utah Today, on behalf of Terry Tempest Williams and Brooke Williams, the Western Environmental Law Center administratively challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM)...
Nov 15, 2016 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
After years of advocacy by a broad coalition of partner groups across the West and in Washington, D.C., we are proud to announce that today the Obama Administration released new rules that will reduce the wholesale waste of natural gas by the oil and gas industry–the...
Oct 28, 2016 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Northwest New Mexico oil drilling will continue despite risks to communities, cultural resources and environment Location: Santa Fe Hopes for a respite from a fracking boom plaguing Navajo and public lands in New Mexico’s Greater Chaco area were thwarted Thursday when...
Oct 25, 2016 | Climate & Energy
Protecting Colorado’s Uncompahgre Region from Fracking and Coal Mining In Western Colorado’s Uncompahgre region, sometimes called the North Fork Valley, organic farms flourish like nowhere else in the state. But the Bureau of Land Management has presented a...
Sep 28, 2016 | Climate & Energy
VICTORY! Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Challenge The Obama Administration sold more than 10 million acres of public land rights to the oil and gas industry, often for as little as $2.00 per acre. That’s an area 50 percent larger than Yellowstone, Everglades, Grand...
Sep 2, 2016 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin
New Mexicans Demand Obama Administration Protect Public Lands and Communities, Keep Oil and Gas In the Ground Location: Santa Fe, NM A coalition today called on the Obama Administration to rein in unchecked fracking near Chaco Canyon and abandon its plans to auction...
Jul 18, 2016 | Climate & Energy
Protecting the Colorado River Valley From Fossil Fuel Development Through the Colorado River Valley Resource Management Plan, the Bureau of Land Management opened up 147,000 acres to oil and gas leasing without any analysis of climate change or impacts to human health...
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