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Bill to restore clean water protections passes House, heads to governor for signature
Today, the House voted 43-25 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to be signed into law. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in recent years, up to 95% of New...
Bill to restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water passes final House committee, heads to House floor
Today, the House Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Committee voted 5-4 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to the full House for a floor vote. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in...
WA Dept. of Ecology again ordered to rewrite industrial dairy permits to better safeguard public health, waterways, aquifers, ecosystems
Yesterday, in response to a challenge from community and conservation groups, the Washington State Pollution Control Hearings Board ordered the Department of Ecology to rewrite pollution discharge permits for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) to better...
Bill to restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water passes first House committee
Today, the House Agriculture, Acequias, and Water Resources Committee voted 5-2 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to the House for committee hearings and, if passed, a floor vote. Following rollbacks to...
Bill to restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water passes Senate
Today, the full New Mexico Senate voted 25-16 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. It will next go to the House for committee hearings and, if passed, a floor vote. Following rollbacks to federal clean water protections in...
Bill to restore clean water protections, safeguard drinking water passes final Senate committee
Today, the Senate Finance Committee voted 6-4 to pass SB 21, a bill to provide critical protections for New Mexico waters. Earlier in the legislative session, the bill passed the Senate Conservation and Judiciary committees. It will next go to the full Senate for...
Legal intervention defends Powder River Basin coal leasing decision
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion today to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing on public lands in Wyoming and Eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin. In a...
National betrayal of federal workers unconscionable; WELC stands with fired civil servants
We denounce the Trump administration’s decision to fire 4,400+ federal public lands stewards at the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and other agencies without cause. These decisions are cruel,...
Listen to Stories of Kinship, our new podcast!
Looking for more ways to learn, stay updated, and get connected with like-minded folks in these uncertain times? Tune in for the Western Environmental Law Center's new podcast! Hosted by WELC's Suze Wehr, Stories of Kinship features conversations about the...
Feds approve plan for railway to reduce grizzly killings
Wildlife conservation groups are cautiously optimistic about a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service habitat conservation plan and incidental take permit covering BNSF Railway Company trains on 206 miles of track through grizzly bear habitat in the Northern Continental...
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