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Erasing Pendley’s Anti-Public Lands Legacy on 6.25M Acres

Jul 28, 2021 | Wildlands

Erasing Pendley’s Anti-Public Lands Legacy on 6.25 Million Acres William Perry Pendley’s tenure as acting secretary of the Department of the Interior was defined by his desire to take public lands away from regular people and privatize them. The Trump...

Protecting Colorado’s Uncompahgre Region from Fracking and Coal Mining

Oct 25, 2016 | Climate & Energy

Protecting Colorado’s Uncompahgre Region from Fracking and Coal Mining In Western Colorado’s Uncompahgre region, sometimes called the North Fork Valley, organic farms flourish like nowhere else in the state. But the Bureau of Land Management has presented a...

VICTORY! Stopping the Bull Mountain Mine Expansion

Apr 23, 2014 | Climate & Energy

VICTORY! Stopping the Bull Mountain Mine Expansion In the foothills of central Montana near Roundup, we kept 170 million tons of coal in the ground in 2017 and defended that victory in 2022. We defeated the Bull Mountain/Signal Peak Mine expansion, arguing that the...

Reducing Methane Pollution on Public Lands

Sep 29, 2012 | Climate & Energy

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...