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CAREER OPPORTUNITY: Climate & Energy Program Attorney
Job Opening Announcement: Climate & Energy Program Attorney Reports to: Climate & Energy Program Director Location: Santa Fe or Taos, NM. Other WELC office locations, including remote, may be considered for the right candidate in the right situation. Timeline:...
Legal intervention defends northern spotted owl habitat
Conservation groups intervened today in a lawsuit brought by the timber industry and counties seeking to strip northern spotted owls of protections for their critical habitat across millions of acres of forests in California, Oregon and Washington. The industry...
Cowlitz Indian Tribe, salmon conservation group put Tacoma Power on notice over failure to protect threatened salmon, steelhead
Today, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and The Conservation Angler, represented by attorneys at the Western Environmental Law Center, notified Tacoma Power the groups intend to challenge in court the utility’s failure to provide safe and effective downstream passage past...
Water Quality Control Commission adopts rule banning discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters
The New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) today adopted a rule that prohibits the discharge of “produced water” to New Mexico’s ground and surface waters. Produced water is a waste byproduct of oil and gas operations and contains hundreds of known and...
OR, WA wolf counts illustrate the impact of human-caused mortality on PNW wolves
Oregon and Washington released the results of state wolf surveys for 2024 this week, presenting a contrast in how the species is recovering in the Pacific Northwest. In Oregon, wolf population increased 14% in 2024 over 2023 levels while in Washington, wolf population...
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