Court: Expanded livestock grazing in grizzly habitat near Yellowstone violated law
Today, The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana found that the U.S. Forest Service violated the law when it authorized expanded livestock grazing on six allotments on the east side of Montana’s Paradise Valley in occupied grizzly bear habitat. The...
Gov’s office, NMED secretary improperly pressuring water commissioners to green-light fracking waste discharge to surface, groundwater
Newly revealed emails show the governor’s office and New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Sec. James Kenney are inappropriately directing members of the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission to advance an oil and gas industry proposal to allow the discharge...
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Trump escalates war on nature with attack on Public Lands Rule
Today, the Trump Administration continued its ongoing attacks on America's public lands by directing the elimination of the widely supported Public Lands Rule. These actions mark a dramatic escalation in the administration’s assault on public lands, prioritizing...
Environmental groups: Democrats must oppose SPEED Act, an unthinkable deregulatory surrender to fossil fuels
Today, environmental groups delivered a letter signed by 26 conservation organizations to members of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources condemning the Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act (H.R. 4776) in advance of today’s...
Montana Public Service Commission declines constitutional responsibility to consider climate change
This afternoon, the Montana Public Service Commission (PSC) sidestepped its responsibility under Montana’s Constitution to consider climate change impacts in its regulation of Montana gas and electric utilities. This comes in response to a petition from more than 40...
Trump administration attempt to repeal Roadless Rule met with widespread opposition
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule, an extremely popular conservation policy enacted in 2001 to protect more than 45 million acres of pristine lands in national forests across 36 states and...
Coalition of environmental groups, Tribal leaders, experts: Public health and environmental safety, public funds protection central to preventing abandoned wells in NM
Today, a coalition of environmental groups, Tribal leaders, and experts submitted testimony to the New Mexico Oil Conservation Commission in support of long-overdue reforms to the state’s oil and gas rules to prevent “abandoned wells,” wells that operators abandon...
The fix is in: Clean water advocates file objection in Big Oil bid to reverse state ban on fracking wastewater discharge
Today, the Western Environmental Law Center requested the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission (WQCC) reconsider holding a hearing on a rulemaking petition filed by an oil and gas industry-led organization that would allow treated fracking wastewater—called...
Court: Western wolves wrongly denied Endangered Species Act protections
Today, a federal district court in Missoula ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) when it determined that gray wolves in the western U.S. do not warrant federal protections. Today’s ruling means that the Service’s...
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