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Current work in wildlife, rivers, public lands, and climate

Press Releases
Jun 15, 2022
Lawsuit challenges Biden-approved oil drilling permits for failing to protect climate-imperiled wildlife, public lands

Lawsuit is about enforcing the reality that more oil and gas extraction only stands to fuel the climate crisis

Climate + Energy
#FrackOffChaco, #KeepItInTheGround, #NoNewLeases, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Jun 14, 2022
Guardians, allies challenge Trump-era rule change allowing logging of mature and old growth forests

Groups seek to reverse Trump administration’s last-minute rule change affecting 11,000 square miles of national forest across Eastern Oregon and Washington

Public Lands
#PressStatement
Jun 7, 2022
Proposed ESA regulatory changes will help species impacted by climate change

WildEarth Guardians’ statement on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposed ESA section 10(j) rulemaking

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Jun 2, 2022
Biden administration will address oil and gas leasing climate impacts, reconsider sales to oil and gas industry

Agreements resolve lawsuits over sale of nearly 4 million acres across Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming

Climate + Energy, Public Lands
#KeepItInTheGround, #NoNewLeases, #PressStatement
May 26, 2022
Court again forces feds to reconsider wolverine protections, this time using science

Wolverines are trapped on the merry-go-round of extinction and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service needs to put them on the path toward recovery

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
May 21, 2022
Federal judge stops 35,000-acre fracking plan in western Colorado

The North Fork Mancos Master Development Plan would have allowed 35 new fracking wells in the North Fork Valley and Thompson Divide areas

Climate + Energy
#ClimateJustice, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement
May 18, 2022
Legal protests target Biden’s plans to resume oil, gas leasing on public lands

Selling public lands to the oil and gas industry is absolutely, 100% guaranteed to keep fueling the climate crisis

Climate + Energy
#ClimateJustice, #KeepItInTheGround, #NoNewLeases, #PressStatement
May 17, 2022
Massive Kootenai National Forest timber sale challenged by Guardians and allies

Knotty Pine Project expected to harm fragile Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear population

Public Lands
#PressStatement, #Rewilding, #WildlandsForWildlife
May 17, 2022
Court rules federal agency wrongly withdrew bi-state sage grouse protections

Imperiled iconic dancing bird in California and Nevada again proposed for Endangered Species Act protection

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
May 14, 2022
Mexican gray wolf rule eliminates cap on population, restricts killing

New federal management rule still falls short on genetic diversity by rejecting science-based reforms

Wildlife
#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction