Oct 5, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Late yesterday, a U.S. District Court judge ruled the Trump administration’s indefinite suspension of key aspects of President Obama’s BLM methane waste rule this summer was “arbitrary and capricious.” The court ordered the Department of...
Oct 4, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Tomorrow, the Trump administration is expected to propose a new rule to delay implementation of the BLM methane rule that curbs waste and pollution from the oil and gas industry on public lands. The proposal would delay for a full year controls on venting, flaring,...
Oct 3, 2017 | News Release, Victory! Protecting Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers from Mining
Businesses, elected officials, and river conservation groups are speaking out against renewed threats to some of the most productive salmon streams in the Pacific Northwest and an important drinking water source and recreation asset for local communities. Chairman of...
Sep 22, 2017 | Jordan Cove LNG Terminal & Pacific Connector Pipeline, News Release
Landowners, Tribes, and community groups are ready to stop the proposed Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Jordan Cove LNG export terminal for the third time in 12 years, following yesterday’s announcement by Veresen Inc. that it has filed its permit application for...
Sep 18, 2017 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release
Government transparency fails, as will legal illiteracy- Today, in the form of 19 fuzzy photos of computer screenshots, the American public saw for the first time Interior Sec. Zinke’s recommendations to President Trump to illegally shrink and allow extractive...
Aug 30, 2017 | News Release, Protecting Grizzly Bears
MISSOULA, Mont. —Today, WildEarth Guardians sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, challenging the agency’s flawed rule stripping grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of Endangered Species Act protections. The Service’s premature removal of crucial...
Aug 28, 2017 | News Release
Last week, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue appointed Tony Tooke, a career U.S. Forest Service employee since the age of 18, to lead the organization as its chief. Susan Jane Brown, wildlands and wildlife program director for the Western Environmental Law Center,...
Aug 24, 2017 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release
Today, the Washington Post reported Interior Sec. Zinke will recommend President Trump reduce the area of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in Oregon and California, or may also recommend a change in management of the monument. This recommendation defies the will of...
Aug 17, 2017 | News Release
Taos, NM – Today, we acknowledge our responsibility to stand in solidarity with all people and communities of good conscience who oppose hatred and discrimination. Heather Heyer’s murder at the hands of a white nationalist in Charlottesville, Virginia last weekend was...
Aug 15, 2017 | Bull Mountains Mine Expansion, News Release
BILLINGS, Mont. – A U.S. District Court judge ruled Monday that the federal Office of Surface Mining (OSM) improperly approved the expansion of Signal Peak Energy’s Bull Mountain coal mine, south of Roundup, Montana. The judge ordered that mining immediately...
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