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...
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...
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...
Oct 3, 2017 | News Release, Victory! Protecting Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers from Mining
Businesses, elected officials, and river conservation groups are speaking out against renewed threats to some of the most productive salmon streams in the Pacific Northwest and an important drinking water source and recreation asset for local communities. Chairman of...
Sep 22, 2017 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release
Landowners, Tribes, and community groups are ready to stop the proposed Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove LNG export terminal for the third time in 12 years, following yesterday’s announcement by Veresen Inc. that it has filed its permit application for...
Sep 18, 2017 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release
Government transparency fails, as will legal illiteracy– Today, in the form of 19 fuzzy photos of computer screenshots, the American public saw for the first time Interior Sec. Zinke’s recommendations to President Trump to illegally shrink and allow...
Aug 24, 2017 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release
Today, the Washington Post reported Interior Sec. Zinke will recommend President Trump reduce the area of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon and California, or may also recommend a change in management of the monument. This recommendation defies the will of...
Jul 26, 2017 | News Release, VICTORY! Santa Fe National Forest ORV Lawsuit Intervention
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upholds U.S. Forest Service decision to protect 400,000 acres from ATVs Santa Fe, NM—On Monday, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed the second lawsuit by an off-road vehicle advocacy organization challenging the U.S. Forest...
Jun 28, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Oregon’s Ochoco National Forest From OHVs
Extensive new motorized trail system threatens wildlife, upsets use balance Today the U.S. Forest Service issued a final decision green-lighting an extensive motorized trail system that would add 137 miles of new off-highway vehicle (OHV) trails to the existing...
