Advocates challenge Biden double-down on Trump-era fracking on sacred land in Greater Chaco

Oct 27, 2022 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking

Today, a group of Diné and conservation groups challenged the Biden administration’s approval of fracking on nearly 45,000 acres—70 square miles—of the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico. In April, the groups entered a legal agreement with the Biden...

Wildlife advocates challenge U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule that fails endangered Mexican gray wolves

Oct 3, 2022 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, wildlife advocates filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for its failure to adopt an adequate management rule for recovering the critically endangered population of Mexican gray wolves as required by the Endangered Species Act. The...

Indigenous and conservation groups to federal court: Protect Greater Chaco region from illegal fracking

Sep 29, 2022 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit heard oral arguments related to the Trump administration’s illegal approval of more than 370 drilling permits in the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico. Attorneys with the Biden administration defended...

VICTORY! Protecting Outstanding New Mexico Waters

Aug 9, 2022 | Wildlands

VICTORY! Protecting Outstanding New Mexico Waters We successfully represented a diverse coalition, including community members, state and local governments, farmers, acequia associations, and water conservation groups in a bid to protect some of New Mexico’s precious...

9th Circuit Court strikes down Trump-era underground coal mine expansion

Apr 5, 2022 | Bull Mountains Mine Expansion, News Release

A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ panel ruled Trump’s Office of Surface Mining (OSM) wrongly approved an expansion of Signal Peak’s Bull Mountain Underground Coal Mine near Roundup, Montana. OSM largely ignored the fact that the proposed 175-million-ton...

BLOCKBUSTER: Judge restores gray wolf protections, reviving federal recovery efforts

Feb 10, 2022 | Nationwide Wolf Delisting, News Release

Today, a federal court restored Endangered Species Act protections for the gray wolf after they were eliminated by the Trump administration in 2020. The ruling orders the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to resume recovery efforts for the imperiled species. Today’s...

After Years of legal advocacy, community organizing, Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and pipeline is dead

Dec 2, 2021 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release

Pembina, the Canadian company that tried to impose a fracked gas pipeline and export terminal on communities across Southern Oregon, today filed a formal request asking the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to cancel its permit for the project. The company’s...

Greater Chaco Coalition celebrates new path forward for landscape protection

Nov 15, 2021 | Climate & Energy, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking

President Biden and Secretary Haaland offer new promise to finally address legacies of sacrifice zones and environmental justice for the Greater Chaco region Members of the Greater Chaco Coalition are applauding President Joe Biden and Department of the Interior...

Conservation groups relieved protections will remain for 3.4 million acres of critical northern spotted owl habitat

Nov 9, 2021 | News Release, Northern Spotted Owl

Conservation groups in the Pacific Northwest have expressed relief that a final rule issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Fish and Wildlife) will reinstate federal protections for old-growth forests, forests essential for the survival of the northern spotted...

Mexican wolves see improved but imperfect management rule

Oct 27, 2021 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves

Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed a new rule for managing the recovery of endangered Mexican gray wolves. In a major improvement for lobos, the wild population would no longer be arbitrarily capped at 320 wolves. And the Service would have more...