Sep 19, 2019 | News Release, Protecting the Colorado River Valley From Fossil Fuel Development
The Western Environmental Law Center, Wilderness Workshop, Western Colorado Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council, and the Sierra Club recently won an important victory in Federal District Court. The lawsuit challenged BLM’s 2015 Resource Management Plan (the...
Aug 30, 2019 | News Release, Speeding the Transition From Coal in the Southwest
New Mexico environmental, community, and labor advocates, as well as Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM), filed a motion yesterday with the state Supreme Court asking the court to clarify that the Energy Transition Act applies to proceedings on PNM’s closure...
Aug 29, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler proposed to eliminate direct regulation of methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas, from the EPA’s New Source Performance Standards. In New Mexico, this would mean that 4,700 new and existing wells would...
Aug 28, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, advocacy groups in New Mexico concerned about methane waste from the oil and gas industry released a set of core principles to guide the state as it begins its next step in developing a rule to prevent waste and safeguard taxpayers, public health, the climate,...
Aug 1, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
In the wake of a federal appeals court win in May, a coalition today filed a new lawsuit and request for a restraining order (link will be added here when available) to defend the Greater Chaco region of northwest New Mexico from illegal oil and gas drilling. Today’s...
May 30, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Environmental and Indigenous groups a part of the Greater Chaco Coalition are thanking Senator Martin Heinrich for facilitating Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s visit to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Tuesday, but are concerned that...
May 14, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced the Methane Waste and Prevention Act of 2019, a bill that would enact common-sense and cost-effective solutions to reduce methane waste and pollution from oil and gas operations on public lands, protect taxpayers,...
May 7, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
A federal appeals court today held that the U.S. Department of Interior’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) illegally approved oil and gas drilling and fracking in the Greater Chaco region of New Mexico, a landscape sacred to Tribes throughout the American Southwest and...
May 6, 2019 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) today delivered a potentially fatal blow to the Jordan Cove LNG project and the Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline which has faced fierce opposition for more than a decade by a grassroots coalition of impacted...
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