This week, WildEarth Guardians stepped up to defend clean air in the American West and push back fiercely against the Trump Administration’s plans to sacrifice our public lands for fracking. On Wednesday, we moved to block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s approval of 3,500 new oil and […]
With news that a potential sale of the Navajo Generating Station, the largest coal-fired power plant in the American West, has fallen through, it’s now entirely clear this massive and costly facility is going to shut down in 2019, as originally scheduled. That’s great news for our climate, […]
This week, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management is holding a series of public meetings around its proposed management plan for public lands in Greater Carlsbad Caverns region of southeast New Mexico. The meetings kick of in Carlsbad, New Mexico tonight, with following meetings in other nearby towns. […]
The U.S. Department of the Interior’s “Royalty Policy Committee” met in Denver yesterday and WildEarth Guardians was there to witness firsthand just how this group is orchestrating the sell out of our public lands to the fossil fuel industry. This “committee” was ostensibly established by President Trump’s Interior […]
As of the end of August, the Front Range region of Colorado registered one of the smoggiest summers in recent years, with levels exceeding federal health standards at monitors from Douglas County north to Denver and up to Larimer and Weld Counties. This dangerous air pollution shows that […]
UPDATE: Take action today to defend the Greater Carlsbad Caverns region and thwart the Trump Administration’s assault on our public lands and climate! Click here to send a letter or attend public hearings the week of September 17, 2018 in southeast New Mexico. The Trump Administration’s assault on […]
Ryan Zinke, President Trump’s Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, boasted this week about the results of a sale of public lands in New Mexico to the oil and gas industry, touting that nearly $1 billion in bids were received. To be certain, $1 billion is […]
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