Jul 13, 2020 | News Release
Citing breathtaking levels of overreach, conservation, fishing, and paddling advocates today filed a complaint in federal court challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule effectively sidelining the role the states and the public have long...
Jul 9, 2020 | News Release
Moving to protect the climate, public health, and to further environmental justice, a coalition today filed suit to overturn the sale of leases on nearly 41,000 acres of public land in New Mexico for oil and gas drilling. The Bureau of Land Management (the Bureau) did...
Jul 8, 2020 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears
Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump administration and state of Wyoming’s appeal of a 2018 decision restoring endangered species protections for the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly bears. The original decision halted...
Jul 6, 2020 | News Release
Late last week, a federal judge shelved portions of a logging plan on the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest known as the Tenmile-South Helena Project (“Tenmile project,” map) until the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) can ensure protections for roadless big game...
Jul 2, 2020 | News Release
Late yesterday, wildlife advocates filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) over its failure to take any action in response to a 2016 court order striking down the agency’s exclusion of Canada lynx habitat in the species’ entire...
Jun 25, 2020 | News Release
On Wednesday, New Mexico Public Regulation Commission (PRC) hearing examiners recommended the PRC replace San Juan Generating Station power with 100 percent renewable energy when the coal-fired power plant is retired in 2022. The PRC must now choose to lead by...
Jun 19, 2020 | News Release
Despite recognizing that restoring beaver populations is key to recovery of imperiled salmon and steelhead species, a federal agency just gave the go-ahead to keep killing beavers in Oregon. In a long-awaited analysis, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)...
Jun 4, 2020 | News Release
Today, the president is expected to sign a far-reaching executive order under the guise of “economic emergency,” exempting large, intrusive, highly polluting and destructive projects from public scrutiny and environmental guardrails in place since 1970 under the...
May 27, 2020 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release
Today, southern Oregon organizations filed a lawsuit challenging Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approval of the Jordan Cove LNG export terminal and Pacific Connector fracked gas pipeline. FERC issued its approval in March, conditioned on the project...
May 12, 2020 | News Release
Today, the U.S. Forest Service released its final revised land management plan for the Rio Grande National Forest, located in south-central Colorado. Hundreds of local community members and citizens throughout the country had urged the Forest Service to include strong...