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This is the pressroom for the Western Environmental Law Center.
Recent Press Releases
- EPA Allows States to Enforce Stricter GHG Tailpipe Emissions Limits: A hard-fought victory for Environmental Groups Jun 30, 2009
- 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.
- FIELD BURNING DOUSED Jun 29, 2009
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An historic victory for OregoniansBased on the overwhelming medical evidence, the history of deadly car accidents and decades of public health complaints from Willamette Valley residents, the Oregon legislature took a huge step forward to protect the health of Oregonians by banning field burning in the Willamette Valley floor starting next year.
- Conservationists File Lawsuit to Defend Scenic, Natural and Historic Values of the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument Jun 18, 2009
- The Western Environmental Law Center on behalf of the Montana Wilderness Association (MWA) filed a complaint in Federal District Court against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for violating laws protecting the Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument in north-central Montana.
- Groups Applaud Western Governors’ Efforts to Protect Wildlife Corridors Jun 15, 2009
- In a historic agreement, state and federal agencies have agreed to work together to protect wildlife corridors essential to the survival of animals like pronghorn, caribou, mule deer, and elk.
Recent Press Clips
- Judge Tosses Bush-Era Forest Management Regulations Jul 01, 2009
- A federal judge sided with environmentalists yesterday and threw out Bush-era Forest Service regulations that govern management plans for national forests. Judge Claudia Wilken of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that the service failed to analyze the effects from removing requirements guaranteeing viable wildlife populations. The planning rule determines how 155 national forests and 20 national grasslands develop individual forest plans, governing activities from timber harvests to recreation and protecting endangered plants and animals.
- Judge overturns Bush administration logging rule Jul 01, 2009
- A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests. U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled from Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of changing the rule to make it easier to cut down forest habitat of species such as the spotted owl and salmon on 193 million acres of national forests.
- Supreme Court Said to Stymie Environmental Causes Jun 25, 2009
- Environmental interests were trounced in the 2009 Supreme Court term that ends Monday. In five high-profile cases, the justices overturned decisions that favored environmentalists. They ruled in favor of the Navy in a case pitting national security concerns against the welfare of marine mammals; limited the scope of liability for a Superfund cleanup; and reversed a decision that held no cost-benefit test could be used to determine the best technology for withdrawing water from rivers to cool power-plant turbines.
- Group sues over plan to manage Missouri Breaks Jun 19, 2009
- A conservation group is accusing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management of managing a national monument in northcentral Montana as if it were run-of-the-mill public land, but the agency is standing by its plan.