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EPA Allows States to Enforce Stricter GHG Tailpipe Emissions Limits

This is a hard-fought victory for Environmental Groups. In a critical step to combat global warming, the U.S. EPA today granted to California a long-delayed waiver for California's greenhouse gas reduction law for new vehicles. Today’s action reverses President Bush’s denials of the waiver request in 2007 and 2008.

WELC Campaign Victory- Field Burning to End in Southern Willamette Valley!

 

Conservationists File Lawsuit to Defend Scenic, Natural and Historic Values of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument

 

Groups Applaud Western Governors’ Efforts to Protect Wildlife Corridors

 

Public Deserves Say On Snowmobile Decision

The public deserves a chance to weigh in on a decision allowing snowmobiling in a wilderness study area on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, say two conservation groups filing suit over the proposal.

On Earth Day, ‘Lease First, Think Later’ Approach Still Dominates U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s Oil & Natural Gas Leasing Program in New Mexico

 

WELC Urges EPA to Issue Greenhouse Pollution Restictions, Including for Soot, With Endangerment Finding

 

Conservationists Applaud EPA Decision to Not Seek Reversal of Victory Protecting Local Water Supplies, Fisheries & Wildlife

 

WELC Launches Transparency Initiative

 

Threatened Canada Lynx Protection Falls Short

Conservationists Ask Obama to Heed the Science and Provide Greater Habitat Protection

Conservationists Convince Government to Reconsider Transmission Line for Desert Rock Power Plant

Interior Boards of Land Appeals decision stalls the proposed Desert Rock coal-fired power plant

Supreme Court’s Narrow Ruling Keeps Citizen’s Right to Challenge Unlawful Government Regulations

But Justice’s limited ruling lets stand the Bush administration’s regulation that prevents the public from reviewing destructive activities in national forests.

WELC Takes Challenge to Appeals Court to Protect Sage Grouse

 

Citizens Applaud Decision Denying Liquified Natural Gas Terminal and Pipeline

Citizens Applaud LUBA Decision Denying Bradwood LNG Terminal and Pipeline Opponents of the Bradwood project contend that the terminal and pipeline would have killed endangered salmon, increased foreign fossil fuel dependence, and imposed eminent domain on small private landowners.

WELC Supports President Obama’s Instruction to EPA on the California Waiver Case

Statement of the Western Environmental Law Center in support of President Obama’s Instruction to EPA on the California Waiver Case

WELC and River Advocates File Legal Challenge to Bush’s Plan for Western Oregon Forests

The federal plan would weaken protection for streams and salmon on 2.6 million acres of public forestland in Oregon.

Conservation Groups File Groundbreaking Suit to Force Bureau of Land Management to Safeguard the Climate, Adopt Win-Win Solutions

Climate at Risk from Wasteful Oil and Gas Operations in New Mexico

Conservationists Win: Bush Rule Exempting Pesticide Application From Clean Water Act Protection is Vacated.

In yet another of a long list stinging defeats for the Bush’s Environmental Protection Agency, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a clear rebuke against the administration’s attempt to exempt certain commercial pesticide applications from oversight of the Clean Water Act.

Climate at Risk from Wasteful Oil and Gas Operations in Montana

Conservation Groups File Groundbreaking Suit to Force Bureau of Land Management to Safeguard the Climate, Adopt Win-Win Solutions

Conservationists Defend Wildlife and Natural Solitude in the Lewis and Clark National Forest.

WELC assists the Montana Wilderness Association in a lawsuit to defend the U.S. Forest Service’s travel plan for Lewis and Clark National Forest.

Lynx in New Mexico Soon to Escape Legal Limbo

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is required to issue finding on petition to federally protect the lynx in New Mexico.

WELC and six other conservation groups release Wind Power in Wyoming: Doing it Smart from the Start

The science-based report titled Wind Power in Wyoming: Doing it Smart from the Start, outlines how utility-scale wind power generation could be approached throughout Wyoming while maximizing compatibility with the conservation of sensitive wildlife habitats and important natural landscapes.

Oregonians Demand an Immediate Stop to Field Burning

“It is indisputable that field burning smoke constitutes a serious threat to public health,” said Western Environmental Law Center attorney and Campaign Co-Director Charlie Tebbutt.

Sportsman and Conservationists Strive to Preserve Critical Wildlife Corridor and Habitat on the Continental Divide.

 

VICTORY! WELC Protects Endangered Kootenai River white sturgeon.

“After nearly six years of litigation, the parties have agreed to a plan that will help save the sturgeon,” said Geoff Hickox, an attorney from the Western Environmental Law Center.

VICTORY! WELC Protects Wildlife, Birds and Habitat on Farms

We are thrilled to report that, in one of the quickest legal resolutions we've seen, WELC won a significant victory protecting habitat for wildlife on farmlands.

WELC Attorney Dan Galpern Authors Paper on Climate Change

 

U.S. Wildlife Officials Failing to Conserve Mexican Wolf

 

Drilling the Climate: Colorado Oil and Gas Auction to Fuel Global Warming, BLM Ignoring its Responsibility to Protect Colorado’s Climate

 

Citizens Bring Suit to Clean up Air Pollution from Industrial Dairies in Lower Yakima Valley

 

Lynx in New Mexico in Legal Limbo, Groups Sue to Protect the Rare Cats in the Southwest

 

WELC Protests BLM's Failure to Consider Climate Change in Offering Oil and Gas Leases in New Mexico

Sloppy industrial practices make oil and gas drilling the second-largest source of greenhouse gas pollution in New Mexico, but the Bureau of Land management intends to open up another 100,000 acres of the state to the oil and gas industry without considering the impacts of climate change and without requiring the use of the latest technologies to cut global warming pollution.

WELC Sues Forest Service Over Attempts to Remove Protections for Wildlife Across the Country

WELC files suit on behalf of 14 conservation organizations

WELC Files Suit to Gain Release of Basic Public Documents Regarding the Proposed Desert Rock Power Plant Withheld by the BIA

 

WELC going to the U.S. Supreme Court!

 

WELC Tells EPA to Cut GHG Emissions from Non-Road Vehicle & Engines

 

Tell state leaders to take action NOW on climate change!

 

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