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WELC congratulates, bids farewell to board member Daniel Cordalis
The Western Environmental Law Center offers heartfelt congratulations to board member Daniel Cordalis, who has been chosen to be Deputy Solicitor of Water at the U.S. Department of the Interior. He will step down from the WELC board of directors. We are sorry to lose...
Friends of the Clearwater to court: Motorized vehicles in Fish Lake’s sensitive habitat would harm bull trout, grizzlies, elk
Today, Friends of the Clearwater (FOC) filed a lawsuit to protect sensitive wildlife habitat in the proposed Great Burn Wilderness, which the Forest Service recommended for Congress to designate as wilderness in 1987. The suit seeks to protect Fish Lake from motorized...
Federal court rejects Montana coal mine expansion on climate, clean air grounds
A federal court late yesterday ruled against a massive Montana coal mine expansion, finding the federal government inappropriately ignored the climate, environmental, and health consequences of more mining. In a rebuke of the U.S. Office of Surface Mining, Judge Susan...
Biden administration issues bold, ambitious agenda to address climate crisis
Today, President Biden issued an expansive set of executive orders to address the climate crisis, safeguard 30% of our country’s lands and waters by 2030, restore the scientific integrity of federal decision-making, invest in sustainable infrastructure, and deliver...
32 Colorado groups support Biden’s expected pledge to halt new fossil fuel leasing, permitting on public lands
As President Biden prepares to announce a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing and permitting on public lands and oceans, 32 climate, conservation, religious and business groups in Colorado today announced support for the move in a letter to the president. Biden...
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The Puget Sound ecosystem is threatened by sewage discharges that are causing toxic contamination and massive algae blooms. Stand with Patagonia grantee @nwenvadvocates in demanding better sewage treatment to ensure the survival of declining salmon and orca populations.
Indigenous people & communities of color are on the frontlines of the #climatecrisis. We now have an administration willing to #ActOnClimate, & defend our health & environment. Powerful op-ed from @CleanAirMoms_CO & @CleanairmomsIa. @IndianCountry.
http://bit.ly/38aHzCG
The oil and gas industry is fueling a smog boom in the Permian Basin of #NewMexico.
We're calling on @EPA to put their foot down, hold industry AND @NMEnvDep accountable to putting health and justice first!
https://wildearthguardians.org/press-releases/guardians-calls-on-environmental-protection-agency-to-defend-clean-air-justice-in-permian-basin-of-southeast-new-mexico/
It's quite shocking that we're risking the unraveling of core Earth systems to prop up, for a few more years, fossil fuel industries--and the destructive politics they sow--that are invariably tilting into decline. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/03/02/climate/atlantic-ocean-climate-change.html?action=click&module=Top+Stories&pgtype=Homepage&smid=tw-nytclimate&smtyp=cur
