News & Updates

Today, the Bureau of Land Management finalized its resource management plan/final supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) for the Colorado River Valley and Grand Junction field offices, which will determine how 2 million acres of land in western Colorado is...

Today, a coalition of conservation groups filed a formal request to intervene in an industry lawsuit in order to defend the Bureau of Land Management’s oil and gas leasing rule finalized in April. The rule contains decades-overdue fiscal reforms, including changes to...

Community, Tribal and environmental groups today filed a motion to intervene in a third federal lawsuit challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule, which creates a framework for the agency to manage 245 million acres for conservation. The...

The Center for Biological Diversity today reached an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that puts the agency on the path to protecting imperiled fish and southern resident killer whales from toxic cyanide in Washington state’s waters. After more...

Community, Tribal and environmental groups today filed a motion to intervene in a federal lawsuit from the states of North Dakota, Montana, and Idaho challenging the Bureau of Land Management’s new public lands rule, which creates a framework for the agency to manage...

Advocates have been working for years to facilitate a transition to clean energy, ending coal’s polluting legacy and the region’s economic over-dependence on fossil fuels At 9 a.m. on Saturday morning, explosions rocked the bases of the four massive smokestacks that...

Today, the D.C. District Court denied an attempt by Signal Peak Energy to force the federal Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) to rush an environmental review of a proposed 175-million-ton expansion at the Bull Mountains coal mine in Montana...

On August 2, a federal district court in Missoula will hear final arguments in a case challenging Wildlife Services’ practice of killing grizzly bears in Montana. The plaintiffs say the program has inadequately analyzed how these slayings may harm the grizzly bear population and its recovery. The hearing before Federal District Court Judge Dana L. Christensen will determine whether Wildlife Services, a wildlife-killing program under the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act before killing or removing grizzly bears in Montana.

Today, attorneys for the 16 plaintiffs in the historic youth-led constitutional climate case, Held v. State of Montana, presented oral arguments before the Montana Supreme Court. In a packed courtroom, attorneys for the plaintiffs argued to uphold the August 2023...

"The Supreme Court's right-wing majority in Loper Bright v. Raimondo is a textbook example of judicial hubris. With the stroke of a pen and little respect for long-settled, 40-year-old precedent, the majority struck down Chevron v. NRDC, a case that stood for the...