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10 Million Acres Leased for Oil and Gas by Obama, Yet Climate Change Consistently Ignored Location: Washington, DC WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility today filed a landmark federal lawsuit to defend our climate, our health, and American...

Study says 250 polluters are responsible for half of the emissions causing the "hot spot" Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico NASA released a new study today examining what caused a methane "hot spot" to form in New Mexico. This new study of methane emissions generated by...

New Plan Sacrifices Clean Water, Fishing Economy, Carbon Storage, Recreational OpportunitiesLocation:Eugene, Ore.Late yesterday, a coalition of conservation and fishing groups challenged in the U.S. District Court in Oregon a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) forest...

Despite Protest, Final Plan Sacrifices Clean Water, Healthy Fish, Carbon Sequestration, Recreation EconomyLocation:Portland, Ore.Today, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) signed a management plan for western Oregon, largely ignoring a formal protest from 22...

Members of Profanity Peak Pack To Be Targeted in Ferry CountyLocation:Olympia, WAWashington Department of Fish and Wildlife officials announced late today they will kill members of the Profanity Peak pack in Ferry County. The kill order was issued following...

Broad support for common-sense emissions reductions persists[UPDATE: After releasing this statement, 14 states filed a lawsuit against the EPA and Gina McCarthy over the methane new source rule, calling it "in excess of the agency's statutory authority and otherwise...

Ending Public Coal Leasing, Mining Would Keep 212 Million Tons of Carbon in Ground, Save $7 TrillionLocation:Washington, DCA coalition of groups today called on President Obama to permanently end the federal coal program, highlighting the fact that ending leasing and...

Location:SeattleOn behalf of youth climate activists who secured an unprecedented court order directing the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) to issue a rule regulating greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the year, attorneys Andrea Rodgers (WELC) and...

Plan Allows Concentrated Drilling in Communities, But Fails to Consider Human Health and ClimateLocation:DenverToday a coalition of environmental watchdog groups challenged a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plan to expand oil and gas drilling on Colorado’s Western...

We are the attorneys who represent the eight courageous youths who presented Gov. Inslee with an unprecedented climate protection opportunity to issue rules to protect their future from carbon pollution. We write not just as their advocates, but as mothers of young...