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Press Releases
Feb 24, 2023
WildEarth Guardians to sue EPA to take over New Mexico oil and gas air permits

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration illegally failing to revise permits to comply with Clean Air Act

Climate + Energy
#JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement
Feb 22, 2023
Guardians to New Mexico: Stop approving illegal air pollution permits for oil and gas industry

New Mexico Environment Department approving permits with dangerous loopholes

Climate + Energy
#JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement
Feb 22, 2023
Coloradans strongly support wolf restoration at Denver meeting

Vast majority of public comment makes clear that wolves should be protected, never hunted

#DefendCarnivores, #PressStatement, #WildlandsForWildlife
Feb 3, 2023
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider removing Endangered Species Act protections for Montana and Wyoming grizzlies

Agency makes preliminary findings on petitions to delist Yellowstone and Northern Continental Divide Grizzly Bears while rejecting Idaho’s attempt at wholesale delisting

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction, #WildlandsForWildlife
Feb 2, 2023
Federal appeals court rejects oil and gas drilling and fracking in northwest New Mexico’s Greater Chaco region

Court win overturns Biden administration, halts new drilling, gives new hope for protection for Navajo communities, culturally significant landscape

Climate + Energy
#ClimateJustice, #FrackOffChaco, #GreaterChaco, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement
Jan 25, 2023
Federal judge finds BLM imperiled sage grouse and broke environmental laws in approving Idaho phosphate mine

The ruling by the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho determined the BLM violated the National Environmental Policy Act and Federal Land Policy Management Act

Public Lands
#PressStatement
Jan 23, 2023
Lawsuit filed to defend climate, clean air from fracking in NM Permian Basin

Suit aims to overturn Trump-era leases approved by Biden Administration

#ClimateJustice, #KeepItInTheGround, #NoNewLeases, #PressStatement
Jan 23, 2023
Lesser prairie chicken listing delayed

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service caves to political pressure, leaves grassland grouse waiting on Endangered Species Act protections

Wildlife
#PressStatement, #StopExtinction, #WildlandsForWildlife
Jan 23, 2023
Conservation groups dismayed by agency removal of wandering wolf Asha

Wolf’s historic journey ended in capture

Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #EndTheWarOnWildlife, #PressStatement, #WildlandsForWildlife