We’ll keep an eye on the situation and will be ready if the project resurfaces.<\/p>\n
We are also working to protect\u00a0 Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin from dangerous fracking. 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It is the first and only national monument specifically established to Soon after, a timber company and the Association of O&C Counties, keen on logging, filed separate lawsuits suggesting an obscure law requires the area be logged and supersedes the Antiquities Act, used to designate and expand the monument. They’re wrong, and we’re representing the Soda Mountain Wilderness Council, Klamath-Siskiyou Wild, Oregon Wild, and the Wilderness Society, defending the monument from this industry attack.<\/p>\n (WELC project #484)<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” disabled_on=”on|on|on” disabled=”on” collapsed=”on”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]<\/p>\n 2013.07.23 Coal Train ED_WA Complaint Final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n ED.Order on MTD.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 60 Day Notice Letter.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 2013.6.4 Complaint_final.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n 100_158_CoalDust_FactSht_04_X1A__2_.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n WELC and its partners have filed two lawsuits against Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company (BNSF) and several coal companies for violations of the federal Clean Water Act pertaining to the companies\u2019 emission of coal into waterways in several locations across Washington.<\/p>\n These companies use open-top rail cars, which lose huge volumes of coal dust during transportation \u2013 an average of 500 pounds of coal per rail car per train trip. Each train is composed of 120 cars or more, which adds up to 30 tons of lost coal per train. Investigations undertaken by our clients have turned up coal chunks and particles from rail cars in Washington\u2019s waters.<\/p>\n Approximately 90% of BNSF’s annual coal shipments are from coal mines in the Powder River Basin (PRB) located in Wyoming and Montana. PRB coal breaks apart easily and contains mercury, arsenic, uranium, and hundreds of other toxins harmful to fish and human health. Additionally, PRB coal dust falls onto train tracks, contributing to track destabilization and dangerous train derailments.<\/p>\n On June 5, 2013,\u00a0WELC attorney Andrea Rodgers and partners filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington in Seattle, where coal dust has been identified in and along multiple waterways including the Pugent Sound. On July 24, 2013, we filed another lawsuit in\u00a0U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington in Spokane, where coal dust has been identified in and along multiple waterways including the Spokane and Columbia Rivers.<\/p>\n Under the Clean Water Act, anyone discharging pollutants into U.S. waters must first obtain what is known as a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit. BNSF does not have such a permit.<\/p>\n Our partners in these lawsuits are the Sierra Club, Puget Soundkeeper, Columbia Riverkeeper, RE Sources for Sustainable Communities, and Friends of the Columbia Gorge. NRDC and Spokane Riverkeeper joined the lawsuit filed in Eastern Washington.<\/p>\n In addition to WELC, the plaintiffs are represented by the Law Offices of Charles M. Tebbutt, P.C. of Eugene, OR; Jessica Yarnall Loarie of the Sierra Club Law Program; and David Pettit and Morgan Wyenn of the Natural Resources Defense Council.<\/p>\n Updates:<\/p>\n 1.02.14: A federal judge in Spokane, Washington denies BNSF’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit aimed at holding them accountable for toxic coal dust that is released from uncovered coal cars polluting Washington’s waterways in violation of the Clean Water Act.<\/p>\n 3.12.14: Victory! A second federal judge – this one in Seattle, Washington – denied BNSF’s motion to dismiss our lawsuit aimed at holding them accountable for toxic coal dust that is released from uncovered coal cars polluting Washington’s waterways in violation of the Clean Water Act. In January, another federal judge denied BNSF’s attempt to thrown out a similar lawsuit that we filed in Spokane, Washington.<\/p>\n (WELC project #705)<\/em><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” disabled_on=”on|on|on” disabled=”on” collapsed=”on”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]<\/p>\n If built, the Pi\u00f1on Pipeline would carry up to 50,000 barrels of oil daily across New Mexico\u2019s Four Corners and Chaco Canyon region, threatening community safety, destroying cultural heritage and sacred sites, as well as pumping close to 8 million tons of carbon into our atmosphere every year, the equivalent of putting 1.5 million more passenger cars on the roads. The Pi\u00f1on Pipeline would be approximately 140 miles in length and would disturb about 10,500 square miles of land surface.<\/p>\n This pipeline is more than just a bad idea for our climate and our We submitted technical comments<\/a> on the pipeline on behalf of a coalition of environmental groups in case litigation to stop the pipeline is ultimately necessary.<\/p>\n Other Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n View a map of the proposed pipeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n View photos<\/a> of fracking in the San Juan Basin.<\/p>\n Read a Pi\u00f1on Pipeline Fact Sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n We are also working to protect\u00a0 Chaco Canyon and the San Juan Basin from dangerous fracking. Learn more about that project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Update 12\/16\/16: VICTORY! Saddle Butte San Juan, LLC, the company proposing the pipeline sent a letter to the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Farmington Field Office withdrawing its right-of-way application for the proposed Pinon Gathering System Project, better known as the Pinon Pipeline project, effectively killing the project. We’ll keep an eye on the situation and will be ready if the project resurfaces.<\/span><\/p>\n (WELC project #693)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VICTORY! Stopping the Pi\u00f1on Pipeline in New Mexico Based on our advocacy efforts, community opposition and economics,\u00a0Saddle Butte San Juan, LLC, which had proposed the Pi\u00f1on Gathering System Project, withdrew its application, effectively killing the Pi\u00f1on Pipeline (map). The pipeline would have carried up to 50,000 barrels of oil each day across New Mexico’s Four […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":5836,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":" If built, the Pi\u00f1on Pipeline would carry up to 50,000 barrels of oil daily across New Mexico\u2019s Four Corners and Chaco Canyon region, threatening community safety, destroying cultural heritage and sacred sites, as well as pumping close to 8 million tons of carbon into our atmosphere every year, the equivalent of putting 1.5 million more passenger cars on the roads. The Pi\u00f1on Pipeline would be approximately 140 miles in length and would disturb about 10,500 square miles of land surface.<\/p> This pipeline is more than just a bad idea for our climate and our We submitted technical comments<\/a> on the pipeline on behalf of a coalition of environmental groups in case litigation to stop the pipeline is ultimately necessary.<\/p> Other Information:<\/strong><\/p> View a map of the proposed pipeline<\/a>.<\/p> View photos<\/a> of fracking in the San Juan Basin.<\/p> Read a Pi\u00f1on Pipeline Fact Sheet<\/a>. Update 12\/16\/16: VICTORY! Saddle Butte San Juan, LLC, the company proposing the pipeline sent a letter to the Bureau of Land Management\u2019s Farmington Field Office withdrawing its right-of-way application for the proposed Pinon Gathering System Project, better known as the Pinon Pipeline project, effectively killing the project. 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\nprotect biological diversity. But ecologists agreed after the designation that many of the most important parts of the region were excluded from the monument’s boundaries. In 2015, 85 scientists concerned about increasing
\nthreats to the area signed a letter urging monument expansion in to better
\nprotect and connect important habitats for the monument\u2019s spectacular variety
\nof plants and animals \u201cwhose survival in the region,\u201d according the monument\u2019s
\noriginal proclamation, \u201cdepends upon its continued ecological integrity.\u201d In January 2017, President Obama expanded the monument to include these ecologically important areas.<\/span><\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/westernlaw.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/KSNM-thumb.jpg\")
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\npublic lands. Construction would also spark expanded oil development,
\nwhich has never been analyzed by the Bureau of Land Management to
\ncomprehensively understand the threat posed to the environment and our
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public lands. Construction would also spark expanded oil development,
which has never been analyzed by the Bureau of Land Management to
comprehensively understand the threat posed to the environment and our
communities.<\/p>
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