Jun 30, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears
Conservationists Signal Impending Legal Challenge Over Removal of Federal Safeguards Today, WildEarth Guardians notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service it will sue the agency over its flawed decision to strip grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of...
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...
Jun 22, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears
Planned Trophy Hunts Would Fundamentally Undermine Grizzly Recovery Today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced it is finalizing its flawed proposal to strip grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Endangered Species Act protections despite...
Jun 21, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Sec. Zinke provides conflicting information to court, Congress Yesterday, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke told the Senate Energy Committee the Trump administration will rewrite or rescind the Bureau of Land Management methane waste rule. The methane rule, which...
Jun 21, 2017 | News Release
Tomorrow, the U.S. House of Representatives begins its consideration of HR 2936, known as the Westerman Bill after its author, Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-AR). The bill contains a cornucopia of loopholes, exemptions and categorical exclusions for environmental, judicial,...
Jun 14, 2017 | News Release
Federal Government Stonewalling Efforts to Obtain Public Information on Wildlife, Environment In a series of legal actions filed today and yesterday, WildEarth Guardians and the Western Environmental Law Center stepped up their efforts to compel the Trump...
Jun 14, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
BLM rule delay defies Congress’ will, harms taxpayers, public health, environment Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced plans to indefinitely delay implementation of key parts of the BLM methane waste rule beyond the original compliance date of...
Jun 8, 2017 | News Release
Today, a coalition of conservation and clean energy advocates challenged a decision by the U.S. Department of the Interior to allow Cloud Peak Energy to strip mine nearly 100 million tons of publicly owned coal from 1,000 acres of public lands without ever conducting...
Jun 7, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Healthy Flows in the Spokane River
Contacts: Andrew Hawley, Western Environmental Law Center, (206) 487-7250, gro.w1736792121alnre1736792121tsew@1736792121yelwa1736792121h1736792121 Dan Von Seggern, Center for Environmental Law & Policy, (206) 829-8299, gro.p1736792121lec@n1736792121regge1736792121snovd1736792121 John Roskelley, Center for Environmental Law & Policy, (509)...
Jun 2, 2017 | News Release
Contacts: John Mellgren, Western Environmental Law Center, 541-359-0990, gro.w1736792121alnre1736792121tsew@1736792121nergl1736792121lem1736792121 Amaroq Weiss, Center for Biological Diversity, 707-779-9613, gro.y1736792121tisre1736792121vidla1736792121cigol1736792121oib@s1736792121siewa1736792121 Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials late Thursday released a...