News & Updates

Agency refuses to green-light project in absence of hydraulic fracturing analysisLocation:Grand Junction, Colo.In a victory for residents of Whitewater and everyone concerned with air and water quality in western Colorado, the state office of the Bureau of Land...

Judge Chastises State, Rules From Bench Ordering State to Reduce Carbon EmissionsLocation:SeattleToday, in a surprise ruling from the bench (transcript here) in the critical climate case brought by youths against the state of Washington's Department of Ecology...

Location:SeattleWHAT: Judge Hollis Hill will hear another round of oral arguments in the important case brought by seven young Washingtonians to address the Washington Department of Ecology’s (Ecology) persistent refusal to implement science-based carbon pollution...

Suit Seeks Renewable Energy Transition AlternativesLocation:PhoenixAmid crumbling coal economics and surging renewable energy growth, Navajo, regional and national conservation groups filed suit today in Arizona’s federal district court challenging the U.S....

Location:SeattleWhen: Wednesday, April 20 at 9:30amWhere: Seattle – Washington State Court of Appeals, District 1; One Union Square, 600 University St.What: Oral argument in a challenge to the Washington State Department of Ecology for issuing water rights that would...

Shift from voluntary industrial agriculture pollution programs essentialLocation:SeattleThe Western Environmental Law Center announces a new report, Agricultural Pollution in Puget Sound: Inspiration to Change Washington's Reliance on Voluntary Incentive Programs to...

Ordered to Act With Urgency, Ecology Responds With More DelaysLocation:SeattleLate yesterday, the youth petitioners in a precedent-setting case over climate disruption in Washington state asked the court to step in yet again after the state Department of Ecology...

Orders Reconsideration of Safeguards for Species Imperiled by Climate ChangeLocation:MissoulaToday, the federal district court for Montana rejected a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) to deny protections for wolverines in the contiguous U.S. The...