National Coalition Plus Tens of Thousands Submit Comments Opposing West Coast Fracked Gas Export Plan

Feb 13, 2015 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release

On behalf of a diverse national coalition, including conservation, commercial fishing and private property owners, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) and Sierra Club submitted comments today to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) opposing what...

VICTORY! Stopping the Piñon Pipeline

Jan 29, 2015 | Climate & Energy

VICTORY! Stopping the Piñon Pipeline in New Mexico Based on our advocacy efforts, community opposition and economics, Saddle Butte San Juan, LLC, which had proposed the Piñon Gathering System Project, withdrew its application, effectively killing the Piñon Pipeline...

BLM Defers Fracking Near New Mexico’s Sacred Chaco Canyon (press release 1/6/15)

Jan 6, 2015 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin

Rampant drilling in the San Juan Basin continues to threaten public health, cultural resources, climate, and clean air and water.Location:Santa Fe, NMA coalition of local and regional watchdog groups supports the Bureau of Land Management’s recent decision to defer...

Canada Lynx Critical Habitat Designation

Oct 29, 2014 | Wildlife

Canada Lynx Critical Habitat Designation Despite mounting evidence that lynx habitat is more expansive than previously thought, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) announced in 2014 that it would exclude all occupied lynx habitat in the Southern Rockies—from...

Salmon River Complex Post-Fire Salvage Project

Sep 10, 2014 | Wildlands

2014-8-5.SalmonSalvageAgreementLtr.Sexton.pdfThe Salmon River is one of the most remote and beautiful areas in the northern California/southern Oregon’s Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion. The 751-mile watershed lies entirely within the Klamath National Forest.Nearly...

Saving Puget Sound

May 29, 2014 | Wildlands

Saving Puget Sound The delicate Sound The Washington Department of Ecology has conducted decades of studies on the serious effects of nutrient and toxic pollution on Puget Sound, revealing a broad variety of water quality problems affecting the Sound, its marine life,...

VICTORY! Stopping the Bull Mountain Mine Expansion

Apr 23, 2014 | Climate & Energy

VICTORY! Stopping the Bull Mountain Mine Expansion In the foothills of central Montana near Roundup, we kept 170 million tons of coal in the ground in 2017 and defended that victory in 2022. We defeated the Bull Mountain/Signal Peak Mine expansion, arguing that the...

VICTORY! Montana Exempt Well Loophole

Mar 20, 2014 | Wildlands

VICTORY! Montana Exempt Well Loophole Rural homeowners, ranchers, and farmers in Montana and other western states have long relied on a provision of the law that affords them the opportunity to drill a small well without first obtaining a permit. It’s an approach that...

Protecting Washington’s waters from toxic coal train pollution

Jul 26, 2013 | Wildlands

Protecting Washington’s waters from toxic coal train pollution It sounds impossible, but coal trains still operate in modern times without tops, spilling an average of 500 pounds of coal per rail car per train trip. With 120 or more cars per train, that adds up to 30...

VICTORY! Protecting Sonoran Desert National Monument from Irresponsible Shooting

Jun 7, 2013 | Wildlands

VICTORY! Protecting Sonoran Desert National Monument from Irresponsible Shooting The Sonoran Desert National Monument in southwest Arizona is one of the most biologically diverse areas of the North American desert. The area is home to large saguaro cactus forest...