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WELC's work by issue area

The Western Environmental Law Center has offices in Oregon, New Mexico, Montana and Colorado and works to defend the environment throughout the western United States. Click the Issue Areas below for more information on how we defend:

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Wildlife & Habitat

Reducing Risk of Climate Change from BLM actions: This campaign focuses on the Southwest and Southern Rockies.
Ensuring a state's right to limit vehicle green house gas (GHG) emissions: The Western Environmental Law Center is urging the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use its authority under section 209(b) of the Clean Air Act to grant California a waiver of federal preemption to enable it to limit vehicle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
MacDonald Pass: Protecting a Key Wildlife Corridor: The U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Army National Guard are proposing to build a new biathlon training facility directly within an extremely important but narrow wildlife corridor on the continental divide.
Ensuring Responsible Energy Development in the Sagebrush Sea of the Powder River Basin: The Powder River Basin of Montana and Wyoming holds important energy and wildlife resources (in particular wildlife habitat within the Sagebrush Sea). To harmonize those resources, we’re pushing the Bureau of Land Management to protect the Basin’s wildlife resources by adopting a phased development management regime to protect core habitat and control the timing and location of development, preparing a comprehensive environmental analysis, and preventing unacceptable degradation.
VICTORY! WELC Propels New Mexico to Forefront of Global Warming Solutions: The result: a pioneering rule requiring a host of industries – including power plants, oil refineries, and upstream oil and gas development operations – to report both major and minor source greenhouse gas emissions.

Citizens Bring Suit to Clean up Air Pollution from Industrial Dairies in Lower Yakima Valley
Drilling the Climate: Colorado Oil and Gas Auction to Fuel Global Warming, BLM Ignoring its Responsibility to Protect Colorado’s Climate
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

Related News: 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; More news...

Overheard: "Without the Western Environmental Law Center’s help and expertise, we would not have been able to do what we did."

Helen Reddout, Co-Founder and President, Community Association for Restoration of the Environment