Conservationists issue legal warning over plan to log thousands of acres of Oregon’s old-growth forest reserves
A coalition of Oregon conservation organizations notified the Bureau of Land Management today it intends to sue the agency to protect marbled murrelets and coastal martens from a plan by the agency to log thousands of acres of old-growth forest in areas designated as...
Wildlife advocates to challenge new, inadequate federal Mexican gray wolf recovery rule
Today, Western Environmental Law Center, on behalf of group of conservation organizations that includes WildEarth Guardians, Western Watersheds Project, Wildlands Network, New Mexico Wild, and Grand Canyon Wolf Recovery Project, notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...
Lawsuit challenges Biden’s resumption of oil, gas leasing on public lands
Climate and conservation groups filed a lawsuit late Tuesday challenging the Biden administration’s resumption of oil and gas leasing on public lands today — the first auctions since the president paused leasing shortly after taking office. The lawsuit challenges the...
Supreme Court aborts its credibility
Today’s Supreme Court decision eliminating a woman’s constitutional right to safe, legal abortions lays bare the court’s conservative perspective and eliminates 50 years of freedom for American women and non-binary people to choose what happens to their own bodies....
Groups sue to protect Shasta River coho salmon from NOAA Fisheries greenwashing program
Today, the Environmental Protection Information Center, Friends of the Shasta River, and the Western Environmental Law Center challenged in federal court the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) flawed Shasta River...
Lawsuit challenges Biden-approved oil drilling permits for failing to protect climate-imperiled wildlife, public lands
Environmental organizations sued the Bureau of Land Management today for issuing more than 4,000 oil and gas drilling permits in New Mexico and Wyoming during the first 16 months of the Biden administration in violation of the Endangered Species Act, the National...
Local leaders urge Commission to support water protections for northern New Mexico streams
Conserving watersheds will preserve clean water, cultural history, traditional irrigation, outdoor recreation A diverse coalition, including tribal leaders and governments, community members, local governments, farmers, acequia members, and water conservation groups,...
Settlements: Biden administration will address oil and gas leasing climate impacts on nearly 4 million acres of western U.S. public lands, reconsider sales to oil and gas industry
In response to lawsuits filed by WildEarth Guardians, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and the Western Environmental Law Center, the Biden administration will review and reconsider decisions to sell nearly 4 million acres of public lands oil and gas leases as...
Court again forces feds to reconsider wolverine protections, this time using science
Today, a federal judge invalidated a Trump administration decision denying protections to imperiled wolverines under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (original complaint here). This is the second time a court has rejected a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision to...
Conservationists challenge federal logging plan that would intensively log remaining spotted owl reserves
Late yesterday, Oregon-based conservation organizations Cascadia Wildlands and Oregon Wild challenged the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Siuslaw Field Office’s plan to log public lands west of Eugene across seven watersheds. The agency’s “N126 Late Successional...
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