Apr 9, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Chaco Canyon From Fracking
Members of the Greater Chaco Coalition are applauding New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich, and New Mexico Congressman Ben Ray Lujan and Congresswoman Deb Haaland for re-introducing the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act of 2019 in the U.S....
Apr 8, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service revealed that 131 Mexican gray wolves survive in the wilds of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. The annual count shows a small increase of 14 individuals from last year’s total documented count of 117....
Apr 3, 2019 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release
In a win for a national monument stretching from Southwest Oregon into Northern California, a federal judge rejected a logging company’s challenge to President Obama’s expansion of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in 2017. The monument was first protected in 2000...
Mar 6, 2019 | Nationwide Wolf Delisting, News Release
Today, acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the Trump administration’s intent to remove endangered species protections for wolves in the lower 48 states. The administration will release the proposal to the public in the next few days. While we’re loath...
Feb 27, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Healthy Flows in the Spokane River
Issue: When water is flowing in the Spokane River during hot summer months, should water be protected for community recreational and aesthetic use, river fish, and wildlife or should the Department of Ecology allow even more water to be taken from the river by...
Feb 13, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves
As a bill to ban recreational and commercial trapping works its way through the New Mexico legislature, indiscriminate trapping is proving an enormous impediment for endangered Mexican gray wolves’ already uphill battle toward recovery. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife...
Jan 8, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin
The San Juan Citizens Alliance and Western Environmental Law Center applaud the decision by Gov. Lujan Grisham’s New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (NMOCC) to set a new hearing regarding a contentious and rushed Martinez-era rule doubling of the oil and gas...
Jan 7, 2019 | News Release, Reducing Oil and Gas Exploitation in the San Juan Basin
Public watchdog groups are extending their appreciation to Gov. Lujan Grisham’s administration for scheduling of a New Mexico’s Oil Conservation Commission special meeting tomorrow to consider whether it will reopen the public process for a highly controversial,...
Jan 4, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest From OHVs
In a final ruling late yesterday, District Court Judge Marco A. Hernandez confirmed Magistrate Judge Patricia Sullivan’s September 2018 rejection of a U.S. Forest Service plan to add 137 miles of off-road vehicle trails in central Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest...
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