Feb 23, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Late last night, a U.S. District Court granted a preliminary injunction striking down Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s attempt to delay for one year implementation of the Bureau of Land Management’s methane waste rule. A coalition of government watchdog...
Feb 13, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Late yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management issued a proposed rule rolling back core public safeguards to reduce methane waste on public lands by the oil and gas industry. The proposed revision capitulates to the worst oil and gas industry operators, undoing all...
Feb 5, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today, ExxonMobil natural gas subsidiary XTO publicly acknowledged the need for government regulation of oil and gas methane emissions. The announcement recognizes that voluntary measures alone are not enough to control this dangerous climate pollutant. Earlier last...
Jan 30, 2018 | News Release, Protecting Mexican Wolves
Tucson, AZ —Today Southwestern wolf advocates challenged the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in court over its 2017 Mexican wolf recovery plan, which violates the Endangered Species Act, excludes the best available science, and imposes an arbitrary population cap...
Jan 18, 2018 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Today marks the date when oil and gas companies operating on federal lands would have had to begin taking specific steps to reduce methane waste under an Obama-era rule adopted by the Bureau of Land Management in late 2016. However, the new administration late last...
Jan 11, 2018 | News Release
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its intent to begin the process to remove Endangered Species Act protections for imperiled Canada lynx in the contiguous U.S. This move by one of the most anti-wildlife, anti-science, climate-denying administrations...
Jan 10, 2018 | News Release
In response to the threat of litigation by two environmental groups, a federal wildlife-killing program has agreed in a letter to stop killing beavers, river otter, muskrat and mink in Oregon. Wildlife Services, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, also agreed...
Jan 5, 2018 | News Release
State will likely allow increased oil and gas pollution despite known effects on public health, climate, environment. On Jan. 5, a large group of New Mexico citizen groups submitted comments to the New Mexico Environment Department on its revised draft general...
Dec 21, 2017 | News Release
Just over one year ago, we made a commitment to you: to wield the power of the law to vigorously defend the American West’s public lands, wildlife, and communities. We’re proud to report to you that we’ve made great progress. Leveraging the essential right of...
Dec 19, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
After defeats in court and in Congress, the Trump administration is now attempting to suspend for one year almost all of the requirements of its Methane Waste Prevention Rule that would reduce waste of publicly owned natural gas by oil and gas companies. Today,...
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