Media advisory: Oil and gas industry takes another swing at convincing Water Quality Control Commission to allow risky wastewater discharge to NM waters
Next week, on April 14, the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) will consider a motion from an industry-backed group to start yet another rulemaking to allow the discharge of “treated” toxic oil and gas wastewater to state waters. In November 2025, the...
New Mexico Indigenous, community, conservation groups cry foul at 7-day Easter scoping comment period for Chaco oil, gas buffer analysis
A coalition of New Mexico Indigenous, community, and conservation groups submitted scoping comments today opposing the Trump administration’s process to re-evaluate a 10-mile buffer surrounding Chaco Culture National Historical Park where new oil and gas and other...
New Mexico regulators near final rules strengthening oil and gas bonding and cleanup
Parties in the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission (OCC) case to modernize oil and gas clean up and bonding rules filed their final post-hearing briefs on Friday, March 20, a key step as the OCC prepares to decide whether to update decades-old financial safeguards...
Historic funding for wildlife passes Oregon Legislature, heads to Gov. Kotek for signature
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,...
Lawsuit challenges Montana’s Bull Mountains Coal Mine expansion, Trump’s sham energy emergency
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...
Conservation groups: Stibnite gold mine permit violates Clean Water Act, would harm Salmon River, threatened bull trout
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...
House Bill 207 would require discharge of oilfield wastewater to New Mexico waters, crops, industrial applications
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...
Executive Director Statement on Trump, ICE, and the Pathology of Domination
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 ...
Legal challenge: Feds more than a year overdue in designating much-needed critical habitat for wolverine
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...
House passes, Senate must reject bill to remove endangered species protections for wolves in Lower 48
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...
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