Oct 30, 2019 | News Release
Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act (H.R. 2181), which would withdraw federal minerals from new oil and gas leasing within a 10-mile buffer surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The bill would...
Oct 28, 2019 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears
Wildlife advocates have notified Burlington Northern Railway Company (BNSF) of their intent to sue the business over its role in trains in Montana killing numerous grizzly bears, which are protected under the Endangered Species Act. In the most recent and sad example,...
Oct 23, 2019 | News Release
Backcountry trail and forest groups in California joined together to challenge the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to allow motorized bikes to operate on non-motorized trails in the Tahoe National Forest. Plaintiffs in the suit include the Gold Country Trails Council,...
Oct 21, 2019 | News Release
Washington state officials have approved an agreement that will prohibit oyster growers from spraying a dangerous neonicotinoid pesticide to kill native burrowing shrimp in Willapa Bay and Grays Harbor. Neonicotinoids are a leading cause of pollinator declines and are...
Oct 8, 2019 | News Release
Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today to require an analysis of the climate risk from an oil and gas extraction plan covering nearly a million acres of public lands and minerals in western Colorado. The area surrounds the Bureau of Land Management’s...
Sep 26, 2019 | News Release
Declaring a key Clean Water Act program in Washington state broken, clean water advocates asked a federal court—in a second lawsuit this week—to order the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fix a program to restore polluted rivers, streams, and Puget Sound....
Sep 24, 2019 | News Release
Nearly three decades after first suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its failure to clean up Washington’s polluted waters, environmental groups returned to federal court to enforce the Clean Water Act. In the groups’ request to reopen a lawsuit...
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...
Sep 17, 2019 | News Release
Late yesterday, clean water advocates filed a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to force it to address extremely high urban storm water pollution in Los Alamos County, downstream from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Urban storm water...
Sep 5, 2019 | News Release
Today, wildlife advocates challenged the federal government’s denial of Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the Sonoran desert tortoise in federal court. WildEarth Guardians and Western Watersheds Project, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center,...
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