BLM stay of methane waste rule halts measures that would have taken effect this week

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...

Groups challenge new rule nullifying compliance obligations under BLM methane rule

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,...

Protecting Oregon’s beavers and salmon from Wildlife Services

Dec 14, 2017 | Wildlife

Protecting Oregon’s beavers–and salmon–from Wildlife Services It may sound strange, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services regularly kills Oregon’s official state animal–beavers—with traps, snares, and firearms. In Oregon, beavers on...

Methane rule suspended for one year: Trump administration shifts waste costs to taxpayers

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...

Groups appeal district court’s dismissal of case on Four Corners Power Plant and Navajo Mine

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...

Feds Stop Using Cruel Tools to Kill Colorado Wildlife 

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....

Court orders Zinke, Interior to immediately reinstate BLM methane waste rule

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...

Rulemaking sets stage for Trump and Zinke to eliminate or gut BLM methane rule

Oct 4, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules

Tomorrow, the Trump administration is expected to propose a new rule to delay implementation of the BLM methane rule that curbs waste and pollution from the oil and gas industry on public lands. The proposal would delay for a full year controls on venting, flaring,...

Congressman Uses Falsehoods to Urge Reopening Kalmiopsis and Wild Rivers Coast for Strip Mining

Oct 3, 2017 | News Release, Victory! Protecting Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers from Mining

Businesses, elected officials, and river conservation groups are speaking out against renewed threats to some of the most productive salmon streams in the Pacific Northwest and an important drinking water source and recreation asset for local communities. Chairman of...

Communities in Oregon and northern California prepare to fight fracked-gas pipeline and terminal for third time 

Sep 22, 2017 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release

Landowners, Tribes, and community groups are ready to stop the proposed Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove LNG export terminal for the third time in 12 years, following yesterday’s announcement by Veresen Inc. that it has filed its permit application for...