Moments ago, the Oregon Senate passed HB 4134, also known as “1.25% for Wildlife,” marking its bipartisan passage in both chambers of the Oregon Legislature. This landmark bill now heads to Gov. Kotek’s desk to be signed into law. A broad coalition of conservation,...

Conservation groups sued the Trump administration today over its approval of a major expansion of the Bull Mountains Coal Mine in Montana. The U.S. Office of Surface Mining approved the expansion last June without releasing a draft environmental impact statement to...

Last Friday, conservation groups filed a petition for review with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) challenging a permit the agency issued early this year to Perpetua Resources for the Stibnite Gold Project, a proposed mine 12 miles east of Yellow...

Last week, Gov. Lujan Grisham issued a legislative message for House Bill (HB 207), sponsored by five Republican legislators and one Democrat, calling for the discharge of produced water to our state’s rivers, streams, and ground water. Produced water is a highly...

Hope sits in the trenches, the last one standing, its teeth cracked,  its knuckles bruised,  its body broken;  but its eyes are still gleaming  with the light of a million lamps.  Its heart is still beating  Because even here,  Even now,  It knows that a better world ...

Today, a coalition of wildlife advocates filed a complaint in the Federal District Court for the District of Montana against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to designate critical habitat for wolverine, listed as threatened under the Endangered Species...

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 845, a bill that disregards science and removes Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for gray wolves across the Lower 48. Wolves remain far from being recovered and are depleted in or absent entirely from...

Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the SPEED Act (H.R.4776), a sweeping rollback of the nation’s bedrock environmental law, the National Environmental Policy Act. The bill would accomplish deregulatory goals of Project 2025, the extreme right-wing policy...

In response to a lawsuit by conservation groups, a federal court today struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log more than 16,500 acres of pine forests just outside Yellowstone National Park in the Custer Gallatin National Forest. The decision found the agency...

Today, the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources is set to vote on the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act (H.R. 4776). The Western Environmental Law Center urges members of the committee to vote no on this deceptively titled...