The front page of this week’s Santa Fe Reporter, Making it Go ‘Boom’, focuses on the industrialized oil and gas development besieging the Permian Basin of southeastern New Mexico and how activity is bolstered by aggressive new political strategies that were unveiled by New Mexico Oil and Gas […]
2017 is winding to a close, and already Secretary of Interior Ryan Zinke’s Bureau of Land Management is gearing up to massively expand its giveaways of public lands in the American West to the oil and gas industry for fracking in 2018. The BLM’s lease sales for the […]
Check out our latest series of interactive maps highlighting coal mining in the Powder River Basin and the link to climate change and deadly air pollution in the United States. The Powder River Basin of northeast Wyoming and southeast Montana is the largest coal producing region in the […]
Earlier this week, WildEarth Guardians joined a coalition in calling on the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to back down from plans to open the door for fracking in the Greater Yellowstone region of southwestern Montana. As we wrote before, unbelievably the Trump Administration is moving to auction […]
WildEarth Guardians today challenged President Trump and his Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, for proposing to auction off nearly 100,000 acres of public lands in Montana for fracking. Together with the Montana Environmental Information Center, we filed a protest (i.e., an administrative appeal) with the U.S. Bureau of Land Management […]
The city of Farmington recently joined other New Mexican cities proclaiming Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day. Across the Southwest, U.S. governments are increasingly acknowledging the historic and current contributions that First Nation peoples have brought to the region. In New Mexico, Gallup, Grants, Albuquerque and Santa Fe (city and […]
While the fossil fuel industry and their cronies in the Trump Administration are tearing apart rules to curb carbon pollution, the reality is we remain on track for major climate progress as we continue to keep fossil fuels in the ground. Nowhere is this more evident than in the […]
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