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STATEMENT: President signs historic climate legislation
Today, President Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act, a long-awaited bill with transformative climate, energy, and environmental provisions. Research group Energy Innovation estimates that for every ton of carbon this bill adds to the atmosphere, the...
Legal agreement blocks oil, gas leasing on 2.2 million acres in Colorado
Conservation groups and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management have finalized a legal agreement that will prevent new oil and gas leasing across 2.2 million acres of southwestern Colorado until the agency supplements its environmental analysis and releases an amended plan...
Court victory for clean water and state regulators in California
Today, a panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overruled the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), re-establishing California’s right to protect water quality in the Yuba, Bear, and Merced River Watersheds for the next 40 years....
Federal court cites human health, climate costs in rejecting massive Wyoming, Montana coal mining plan
A federal judge late yesterday struck down two U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) resource management plans that failed to address the public health consequences of allowing massive amounts of coal, oil, and gas production from public lands and minerals in the...
STATEMENT: Inflation Reduction Act-related “permitting reforms” threaten bedrock environmental laws
The Inflation Reduction Act is potentially transformative climate and energy legislation. Yet the bill contains several bitter pills for communities and groups that have spent years challenging the extraction of fossil fuels on federal public lands. Now, details have...
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Working to #CutMethane pollution from the oil & gas industry is one of the best tools we have to tackle the #ClimateCrisis, but we must act NOW. It's time for @EPA to publish a strong draft rule by the end of summer. We cannot waste any more time. https://bit.ly/3PmzNZm
STATEMENT (in anticipation): @POTUS signs historic #climate legislation
"Today we celebrate. But we do so with clear hearts & minds. The #InflationReductionAct provides game-changing investments in clean energy, but also props up the oil & gas industry."
https://westernlaw.org/statement-president-signs-historic-climate-legislation/
Later today, with the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act into law, we make history.
Later today, with the signing of the Inflation Reduction Act into law, we make history.
Chaco Canyon, arguably one of the most sacred Indigenous site in North America - is under attack.
These fracking wells, just miles from Chaco, extract millions of dollars in crude oil and natural gas and spew methane pollution and sour gas 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
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