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Pressroom
This is the pressroom for the Western Environmental Law Center.
Recent Press Releases
- U.S. Wildlife Officials Failing to Conserve Mexican Wolf, 11 Conservation Groups Intervening to Ensure Wolf Recovery Is Agency’s Priority Apr 30, 2008
- With only 52 Mexican gray wolves left in the wild, a number of conservation organizations are asking an Arizona federal court to direct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to take back their leadership responsibilities for the Mexican wolf reintroduction effort and make wolf conservation a priority.
- Citizens Bring Suit to Clean up Air Pollution from Industrial Dairies in Lower Yakima Valley Apr 23, 2008
- Seeking to hold industrial dairies accountable for their release of hazardous air pollutants, citizens filed a lawsuit today against one of the biggest dairies in the state of Washington.
- Drilling the Climate: Colorado Oil and Gas Auction to Fuel Global Warming, BLM Ignoring its Responsibility to Protect Colorado’s Climate Apr 23, 2008
- A coalition of local, regional, and national citizens groups have challenged the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s decision to open up more than 174,000 acres of Colorado to oil and gas drilling without taking action to protect Colorado’s climate.
- Lynx in New Mexico in Legal Limbo, Groups Sue to Protect the Rare Cats in the Southwest Apr 21, 2008
- Groups are suing to ensure that the highly imperiled cats do not lose their legal protection once they cross from Colorado where they are protected as a threatened species under the Edangered Species Act (ESA) into New Mexico where they are not protected under the ESA.
Recent Press Clips
- Second Suit In 2 Days Targets Wolf Program May 02, 2008
- For the second time in two days, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's management of the Mexican gray wolf recovery program was targeted by a federal lawsuit filed by conservation groups.
- Environmentalists sue Outlook dairy over methanol emissions Apr 24, 2008
- While dairies across the country have been sued for various environmental threats, from contaminating water with liquid manure to illegal dumping in irrigation ditches, the lawsuit appears to be the first to target methanol under the federal Clean Air Act.
- Environmental group files new lawsuit against Outlook dairy Apr 24, 2008
- "The dairies and the agencies responsible for regulating them have ethical and legal obligations to limit the massive pollution they are causing and harm they are doing to the citizens of the Yakima Valley," said Charlie Tebbutt, Western Environmental Law Center
- Proposed oil, gas leases in southern Colorado net protests Apr 23, 2008
- Proposed oil and gas leases on more than 140,000 acres in a national forest in southern Colorado, including roadless areas, generated several protests.
