Feb 13, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Late yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management issued a proposed rule rolling back core public safeguards to reduce methane waste on public lands by the oil and gas industry. The proposed revision capitulates to the worst oil and gas industry operators, undoing all...
Feb 5, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, ExxonMobil natural gas subsidiary XTO publicly acknowledged the need for government regulation of oil and gas methane emissions. The announcement recognizes that voluntary measures alone are not enough to control this dangerous climate pollutant. Earlier last...
Jan 30, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves
Tucson, AZ —Today Southwestern wolf advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in court over its 2017 Mexican wolf recovery plan, which violates the Endangered Species Act, excludes the best available science, and imposes an arbitrary population cap...
Jan 18, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today marks the date when oil and gas companies operating on federal lands would have had to begin taking specific steps to reduce methane waste under an Obama-era rule adopted by the Bureau of Land Management in late 2016. However, the new administration late last...
Dec 19, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
After defeats in court and in Congress, the Trump administration is now attempting to suspend for one year almost all of the requirements of its Methane Waste Prevention Rule that would reduce waste of publicly owned natural gas by oil and gas companies. Today,...
Dec 7, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Tomorrow, the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management will finalize a one-year suspension of a regulation adopted just a year ago to reduce methane waste on public lands. This is the latest in a series of attempts by the Trump administration and...
Nov 9, 2017 | News Release, Speeding the Transition From Coal in the Southwest
PHOENIX – Navajo, regional and national conservation groups today filed with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to continue their challenge of a 25-year extension of coal operations at Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo Mine. They appealed to the Ninth Circuit Court...
Nov 6, 2017 | Colorado Wildlife Services Challenge, News Release
Denver, CO— Today, in response to a lawsuit challenging its activities in Colorado, Wildlife Services, the federal wildlife killing program, agreed to complete a new environmental analysis and end the use of many of its most controversial killing tools in the interim....
Oct 5, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Late yesterday, a U.S. District Court judge ruled the Trump administration’s indefinite suspension of key aspects of President Obama’s BLM methane waste rule this summer was “arbitrary and capricious.” The court ordered the Department of...
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