Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Challenge

VICTORY! Federal Oil and Gas Leasing Challenge The Obama Administration sold more than 10 million acres of public land rights to the oil and gas industry, often for as little as $2.00 per acre. That’s an area 50 percent larger than Yellowstone, Everglades, Grand...

Protecting the Santa Fe National Forest from Fracking

Protecting the Santa Fe National Forest from Fracking Despite more than a hundred protests from citizens and organizations, The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service auctioned 20,000 acres of the Santa Fe National Forest for fracking. The lease sales...

VICTORY! Stopping the Piñon Pipeline

VICTORY! Stopping the Piñon Pipeline in New Mexico Based on our advocacy efforts, community opposition and economics, Saddle Butte San Juan, LLC, which had proposed the Piñon Gathering System Project, withdrew its application, effectively killing the Piñon Pipeline...

Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands

Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands: BLM/EPA Waste Rules WELC works with a broad coalition of advocates toward the goal Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands. The oil and gas industry is the nation’s second largest industrial climate polluter after power...
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