Feb 13, 2025 | News Release
Wildlife conservation groups are cautiously optimistic about a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service habitat conservation plan and incidental take permit covering BNSF Railway Company trains on 206 miles of track through grizzly bear habitat in the Northern Continental...
Feb 12, 2025 | News Release
Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-3 to pass SB 21, a substitute bill combining SB 21 and SB22. The bill will provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. The bills earlier passed the Senate Conservation Committee on two 6-3 votes. SB21 will next go...
Feb 10, 2025 | News Release
Today, Clear Horizons New Mexico, a statewide coalition of environmental, social justice, and conservation advocates from 31 organizations across New Mexico, applauds the Senate Conservation Committee for passing the Community Benefit Fund, made up of Senate Bills 48...
Jan 30, 2025 | News Release
Today, the Senate Conservation Committee voted 6-3 to pass both SB 21 and SB 22, a pair of bills that will provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. The bills are also assigned to the Senate Judiciary and Finance Committees before they move over to the House...
Jan 27, 2025 | News Release
The Western Environmental Law Center is encouraged and optimistic that the New Mexico legislature is considering a range of strong bills to safeguard our rich natural resources and climate, leverage the state’s power to protect water quality to account for federal...
Jan 27, 2025 | News Release
Today, a coalition of environmental, social justice, and conservation advocates from across New Mexico expressed their strong support for Senate Pro Tem Mimi Stewart’s suite of bills that will take action on climate change: the Clear Horizons Act, the Community...
Jan 27, 2025 | News Release
The Kettle Range Conservation Group is celebrating the settlement of its lawsuit challenging the Bulldog Restoration Project in the Kettle River Mountains of northeast Washington. The legal agreement with the U.S. Forest Service, reached on Jan. 23, 2025, protects...
Jan 21, 2025 | News Release
Today, Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth and Rep. Kristina Ortez introduced two bills at the New Mexico state legislature that will provide critical protections for the state’s waters. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in recent years, up to 95%...
Jan 20, 2025 | News Release
President Trump plans to declare a “national energy emergency” today, a lie that flies in the face of the highest energy production levels in U.S. history under President Biden in 2024 punctuating seven years of U.S. dominance over global fossil fuel markets. The...
Jan 9, 2025 | News Release
Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denied petitions from Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming to eliminate Endangered Species Act protections for grizzly bears. Scientific evidence clearly shows grizzlies are not yet recovered. “The law requires the U.S. Fish and...
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