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...

Erasing Pendley’s Anti-Public Lands Legacy on 6.25M Acres

Jul 28, 2021 | Wildlands

Erasing Pendley’s Anti-Public Lands Legacy on 6.25 Million Acres William Perry Pendley’s tenure as acting secretary of the Department of the Interior was defined by his desire to take public lands away from regular people and privatize them. The Trump...

VICTORY! Restoring Gray Wolf Protections Nationwide

Apr 8, 2021 | Wildlife

VICTORY! Restoring Gray Wolf Protections Nationwide Wolves belong. They were here for millennia before settlers nearly succeeded in eradicating them from the so-called “New World.” Always survivors, wolves held on, narrowly staving off extinction and...

Preventing Northern Spotted Owl Extinction

Apr 8, 2021 | Wildlife

Preventing Northern Spotted Owl Extinction Federally designated critical habitat is just that — critical to the survival of imperiled plants and animals, and protected to aid in recovery of the species. For the northern spotted owl, an icon of the Pacific Northwest...