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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...
NM community groups strongly support bill to codify 10-mile mineral withdrawal surrounding Chaco
New Mexico community groups today express their strong support for the revival of a 2023 bill backed by the state’s entire Congressional delegation to codify into law a 10-mile buffer zone restricting new oil and gas extraction around Chaco Culture National Historical...
Water Quality Control Commission poised to adopt rule prohibiting discharge of oil, gas wastewater to ground, surface waters
Rule would allow dangerous exception for “pilot projects” to discharge 84,000 gallons per day of treated fossil fuel waste to groundwater, risking public health Following a day and a half of deliberations, the Water Quality Control Commission is poised to adopt...
Gov. completes strong NM response to SCOTUS gutting Clean Water Act by signing SB 21
Today, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed SB 21, now a law to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in recent years, up to 95% of New Mexico’s streams and up to 88% of New Mexico’s wetlands have lost...
Court: N126, one of the largest Oregon logging projects in decades, needs more detailed study to safeguard environment, imperiled species
In response to a challenge brought by Cascadia Wildlands and the Western Environmental Law Center, an Oregon federal district court on Monday held that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the law in authorizing the N126 Late Successional Reserve Landscape...
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