News & Updates
WA Youths Provide Inslee Administration with Climate Science to Make Proposed Clean Air Rule Comply With Law (News Release 7/25/16)
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...
Groups Challenge BLM Plan to Double Drilling in Colorado River Valley (Press Release 7/18/16)
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...
About Gov. Inslee’s appeal of youth climate victory (Open Letter 6/23/16)
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...
WA Gov doubles down on betraying youth (Press Release 6/16/16)
Location:SeattleYesterday, in an act betraying the youth of Washington, “green” Gov. Jay Inslee’s administration appealed a Washington Superior Court decision ordering his administration to issue a rule limiting greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the year. Today,...
Ecology’s draft CAFO water quality permit sacrifices public health, drinking water, shellfish beds (Press Release 6/16/16)
Location:SeattleYesterday, the Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) issued a draft concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) general discharge permit, replacing one that expired in 2011. Faced with the opportunity to protect Washingtonians from...
Inslee Administration Defies Court Order, Betrays Children (Press Release 6/1/16)
Location:SeattleToday, the Inslee administration released its revised Clean Air Rule that defies an unprecedented May 16, 2016 court order issued by King County Superior Court Judge Hollis R. Hill, and fails the children of Washington. Judge Hill ordered the state to...
Groups Protest Oregon Timber Plan Riddled With Loopholes (Press Release 5/16/16)
Latest BLM Plan Increases Clearcutting and Dismantles Streamside Forest Protections for Clean Water, Salmon, and CommunitiesLocation:Washington, DCToday, Earthjustice and the Western Environmental Law Center, on behalf of 22 conservation and fishing groups, filed a...
Obama Administration Finalizes Safeguards for Methane Pollution (Press Release 5/12/16)
Standards are the First-Ever National Protections Against Methane Pollution from the Oil and Gas IndustryLocation:AlbuquerqueToday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized standards for methane pollution, a component of natural gas, from new and modified...
Citizen Groups Challenge Fracking in Santa Fe National Forest (Press Release 5/4/16)
Legal Push Part of Broader Effort to Safeguard Greater Chaco from Oil and Gas IndustryLocation:Santa Fe, NMIn a bid to protect New Mexico's water, air, and climate, a coalition of environmental groups filed suit yesterday challenging the Obama administration's plan to...
Suit Seeks Public Review of Animal Pelt Exports (News Release 5/4/16)
Endangered Species Treaty Misused to Facilitate Mass Fur ExportLocation:MissoulaToday, conservation groups filed suit to require open, public review of the impacts of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (Service’s) export program that facilitates international trade...
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