Apr 12, 2017 | Colorado Wildlife Services Challenge, News Release
Conservationists sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services today over its carnivore-killing program in Colorado. Included in the larger program are controversial plans to kill up to 120 mountain lions and black bears in Colorado in a misguided...
Mar 29, 2017 | News Release
News Releases WELC Statement: Interior to Rewrite or Rescind BLM Methane Rule Jun 21, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste RulesSec. Zinke provides conflicting information to court, Congress Yesterday, Secretary of the...
Mar 28, 2017 | News Release
In an executive order released by the White House today, President Trump seeks to reverse the core policy safeguards put in place by the Obama Administration to address climate change. The Trump order represents a sweeping attack on action to account for intensifying...
Mar 24, 2017 | Idaho Predator Derby Challenge, News Release, Regional Resilience: Northern Rockies
Yesterday, the Federal District Court of Idaho approved a settlement agreement between six conservation groups and the Bureau of Land Management ensuring public notice of a wildlife killing contest on BLM-managed public lands near Salmon, Idaho. In 2014 a vocal...
Feb 27, 2017 | Defending the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument Expansion, News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest
Late last Friday, local and partner conservation groups intervened in two lawsuits to protect the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument from challenges brought by timber interests. The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is one of the most biodiverse places in North...
Feb 21, 2017 | News Release, Washington State Sustainable Agriculture Campaign
Location: Seattle On Feb. 17, 2017, a coalition of environmental groups filed an appeal with the Washington state Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) challenging the Department of Ecology’s waste discharge permits for concentrated animal feeding operations...
Feb 10, 2017 | News Release
Payette National Forest will assess how to protect bull trout critical habitat from motorized use Location: Boise In response to a lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, the Payette National Forest in west central...
Feb 3, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Misguided ideological frenzy could claim innocent bystander In a close vote, the House of Representatives voted today to repeal a popular, common-sense Bureau of Management rule limiting methane waste by oil and gas companies on public and tribal lands. This was made...
Jan 19, 2017 | News Release, Regional Resilience: Pacific Northwest, Washington State Sustainable Agriculture Campaign
Location: Seattle Today, a coalition environmental, public health, social justice and public interest advocates and organizations representing tens of thousands of Washingtonians responded to the Washington State Department of Ecology’s issuance of a revised...
Jan 17, 2017 | News Release, Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules
Rule Would Reduce Egregious Methane Waste, Benefit Taxpayers, Communities, Public Health Casper, Wyo. Sixteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans applaud a decision issued yesterday by Wyoming...
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