News & Updates

White House rejects scientific consensus, guts U.S. climate policy

Mar 28, 2017

In an executive order released by the White House today, President Trump seeks to reverse the core policy safeguards put in place by the Obama Administration to address climate change. The Trump order represents a sweeping attack on action to account for intensifying...

Idaho Settlement Ensures Notification for Wildlife Killing Contests on BLM Lands

Mar 24, 2017

Yesterday, the Federal District Court of Idaho approved a settlement agreement between six conservation groups and the Bureau of Land Management ensuring public notice of a wildlife killing contest on BLM-managed public lands near Salmon, Idaho. In 2014 a vocal...

Coalition Defends Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument

Feb 27, 2017

Late last Friday, local and partner conservation groups intervened in two lawsuits to protect the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument from challenges brought by timber interests. The Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument is one of the most biodiverse places in North...

Environmental groups challenge Ecology’s new permits for industrial dairies

Feb 21, 2017

Location: Seattle On Feb. 17, 2017, a coalition of environmental groups filed an appeal with the Washington state Pollution Control Hearings Board (PCHB) challenging the Department of Ecology’s waste discharge permits for concentrated animal feeding operations...

Lawsuit Spurs Forest Service to Ensure Safe Passage for Bull Trout

Feb 10, 2017

Payette National Forest will assess how to protect bull trout critical habitat from motorized use Location: Boise In response to a lawsuit filed by WildEarth Guardians, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, the Payette National Forest in west central...

House takes extreme measures to promote methane waste from oil and gas

Feb 3, 2017

Misguided ideological frenzy could claim innocent bystander In a close vote, the House of Representatives voted today to repeal a popular, common-sense Bureau of Management rule limiting methane waste by oil and gas companies on public and tribal lands. This was made...

Ecology’s CAFO Water Quality Permit Sacrifices Public Health, Drinking Water, Shellfish Beds

Jan 19, 2017

Location: Seattle Today, a coalition environmental, public health, social justice and public interest advocates and organizations representing tens of thousands of Washingtonians responded to the Washington State Department of Ecology’s issuance of a revised...

Health, Environmental, and Tribal Groups Applaud Order Denying Industry Efforts to Halt BLM Methane Waste Rule Implementation

Jan 17, 2017

Rule Would Reduce Egregious Methane Waste, Benefit Taxpayers, Communities, Public Health Casper, Wyo. Sixteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans applaud a decision issued yesterday by Wyoming...

Advocacy in action: Decades-long effort earns 20-year mining ban in Kalmiopsis Wild Rivers

Jan 13, 2017

Administration acts to protect steelhead, wild salmon for decades Location: Portland, Ore. This week, the Obama Administration took strong administrative action to protect an area in southwest Oregon's Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest with the highest concentration of...

Indigenous Leaders Rally in Santa Fe to Stop Chaco Oil and Gas Sale

Jan 11, 2017

Navajo Chapter Presidents, Tribal members, and New Mexico Water Protectors call on BLM State Office to Cancel January Auction Location: Santa Fe, NM On January 25, 2017, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is scheduled to hold an online auction of 843 acres of public...