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

Press Releases

Mar 2, 2021

Congress urged to boost funding for Endangered Species conservation

The Endangered Species Act is one of the best tools America has to stem the current extinction crisis facing plants and wildlife

Wildlife

#EndangeredSpeciesAct, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction

Mar 2, 2021

Guardians calls on Environmental Protection Agency to defend clean air, justice in Permian Basin of southeast New Mexico

Petition also calls on EPA to sanction State of New Mexico for failing to protect public health, rein in smog pollution

Climate + Energy

#JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround

Mar 1, 2021

Injunction sought to halt harm to bighorn sheep on Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest

Nearly half of the bighorn sheep in Washington state are at significant risk

Public Lands, Wildlife

#PressStatement, #ProtectWhatYouLove, #StopExtinction, #WildlandsForWildlife

Feb 26, 2021

Illegal grazing decision rescinded day after conservationists sued to overturn it

Bureau of Land Management rescinds decision allowing an unqualified ranching company to graze cows on Steens Mountain in southeastern Oregon

Public Lands

#PressStatement, #PublicLandsInPublicHands

Feb 25, 2021

Lawsuit challenges last-minute Trump grazing decision in Oregon

In 2019 a federal court rejected the Interior Department’s previous permit authorization

Public Lands

#PressStatement, #PublicLandsInPublicHands

Feb 19, 2021

FERC moves forward with pumped storage hydro project near Lake Powell

Conservation groups vow to continue to fight this climate-doomed project

Wildlife

#CORiver, #LivingRivers, #PressStatement, #ProtectWhatYouLove, #RethinkRivers

Feb 17, 2021

Suit filed to ensure action on Suncor oil refinery air pollution permits

Denver area refinery chronically violating clean air laws, threatening people, communities, and justice

Climate + Energy

#COCleanAir, #JustTransition, #PressStatement

Feb 17, 2021

Guardians joins 500 groups in support of confirming Rep. Deb Haaland as Interior Secretary

Overwhelming support for confirmation of first Native American as U.S. Secretary of the Department of the Interior

Climate + Energy, Public Lands, Rivers, Wildlife

#ClimateJustice, #DefendCarnivores, #EndTheWarOnWildlife, #EndangeredSpeciesAct, #GreaterChaco, #JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement, #ProtectPrairieDogEmpires, #PublicLandsInPublicHands, #Rewilding, #SafeguardTheSagebrushSea, #StopExtinction, #WildlandsForWildlife

Feb 16, 2021

Guardians calls on Colorado Governor Polis to pause oil and gas leasing, commit “full capacity” of state to climate action

State Land Board selling more than 100,000 acres of public lands for fracking even as federal government has paused leasing

Climate + Energy

#COCleanAir, #JustTransition, #KeepItInTheGround

Feb 16, 2021

Biden’s Forest Service hits brakes on review of Trump-era livestock directives for public lands

Conservation groups hopeful process will trigger a first look at the climate and biodiversity impacts of public lands livestock grazing

Public Lands

#GreaterGila, #ProtectWhatYouLove, #PublicLandsInPublicHands, #WildlandsForWildlife