Dec 12, 2016 | News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest, Washington State Sustainable Agriculture Campaign
Department of Ecology poised to allow continued industrial ag pollution throughout state with new permit Location: Seattle Last week, Cow Palace Dairy, a large Concentrated Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO) in Zillah, Wash., began installation of state-of-the-art...
Dec 12, 2016 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest
Location: Medford, Ore. Late Friday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) denied a request from Canadian oil and gas companies for rehearing of the case surrounding the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline,...
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 6, 2016 | News Release, Regional Resilience: Northern Rockies, Victory! Preserving Elk Habitat in Helena National Forest
Montana hunters and anglers commend Forest Service’s responsible management decision Location: Helena A coalition of Montana sportsmen’s groups commended the Helena-Lewis Clark National Forest’s recent decision to withdraw a controversial forest plan amendment that...
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 30, 2016 | Op-ed, Victory! Montana Exempt Well Loophole
This September, on behalf of four ranchers and the Clark Fork Coalition, my colleague Matthew Bishop and I successfully challenged a rule that allowed large developments to bypass water permitting. The state Supreme Court agreed that the rule was out of step with the...
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 16, 2016 | News Release, Protecting Washington’s waters from toxic coal train pollution, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest
Location: Seattle A coalition of environmental organizations and BNSF Railway (BNSF) have reached an agreement in principle that will ensure that BNSF starts to clean up and prevent pollution from their coal trains. The agreement, which is expected to be finalized as...
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...
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