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ABOUT THE WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) is a leading nonprofit public interest environmental law firm. WELC has been celebrated as an Outside Magazine Best Place to Work, Oregon Business Magazine Best Nonprofit, a Law360...
Oregon approves petition to increase marbled murrelet endangered species protection
The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission today approved a petition filed by five conservation groups to give marbled murrelets more protection by reclassifying them from threatened to endangered under the state’s Endangered Species Act. The 4-3 decision comes two years...
Washington appellate court finds state’s industrial ag permits fail to protect water, climate
Yesterday, as record-setting heat threatened the sustainability of Washington’s water resources, a three-judge panel of the Washington Court of Appeals unanimously invalidated the Washington State Department of Ecology’s (“Ecology’s”) waste discharge permits for...
Federal court rejects crucial grizzly, bull trout aspects of revised forest plan for Flathead National Forest
A federal district court yesterday rejected crucial aspects of the revised forest plan for the Flathead National Forest in northwest Montana for failing to adequately assess conservation needs for threatened grizzly bears and bull trout. Specifically, the court...
House passes resolution to reinstate methane pollution safeguards
Today, the US House of Representatives passed (229 to 191) a resolution that would reinstate the Environmental Protection Agency's 2016 methane pollution safeguards for the oil and gas industry. The Senate passed a similar resolution in April. Methane, the primary...
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Cutting greenhouse gas emissions quickly would save tens of millions of lives worldwide, a new study finds. It’s the latest indication that climate change is deadly to humans, and that the benefits of transitioning to a cleaner economy could be profound.
https://www.opb.org/article/2021/07/29/cutting-carbon-pollution-quickly-would-save-about-74-million-lives-study-finds/
