Coal is dying, yet President Trump and his cronies are still doing everything they can to use our public lands and resource to prop up this failing industry. The latest is a resurrected plan to open up nearly 2,000 acres of National Forest backcountry so Arch Coal can […]
Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement last week was a major disappointment, but not altogether surprising given his allegiance to the fossil fuel industry. Still, it was a pretty major slap in the face considering that Americans supported the agreement by a ratio of five to one, including the […]
UPDATE: Well it’s official, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. Our goal now? Shut down the fossil fuel industry. We can do it. We can’t afford not to. Although there’s much speculation this morning, the writing on the wall seems crystal clear: Trump is […]
WildEarth Guardians led a coalition this week in calling on the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement to plan for the inevitable shutdown of New Mexico’s San Juan coal mine. As we’ve been writing about frequently, the San Juan mine, which fuels the massive San Juan […]
WildEarth Guardians is confronting a plan by President Trump and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to approve an expansion of the Spring Creek coal mine in southeastern Montana. The Spring Creek mine is part of a massive coal mining complex in the Powder River Basin, the largest coal producing […]
Late last week, WildEarth Guardians took dead aim on President Trump’s blatant denial of climate science. In a brief filed in federal court in Wyoming, we targeted Trump’s withdrawal of climate protections adopted under the Obama Administration. The brief was filed as part of an ongoing lawsuit over […]
Check out some of our latest pictures of the San Juan coal mine and San Juan Generating Station in New Mexico. Yeah, they’re ugly pictures, but hopefully they give you a sense of how massive this coal complex is and how much it affects the air, water, land, […]
The U.S. Office of Surface Mining is conducting a comprehensive environmental review of the San Juan coal mine, which fuels the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station. Located in the Greater Chaco region of northwestern New Mexico, the San Juan mine and power plant are responsible for millions of […]
Read WildEarth Guardians’ response to the Trump Administration’s latest attack on our climate. In case you missed it, not only did Trump move to destroy carbon regulation in the U.S., he directed Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, to lift a moratorium on new public lands coal leasing. […]
Despite major climate progress here in the U.S., including a historic moratorium on leasing publicly owned coal, the Obama Administration is still frighteningly out of step when it comes to confronting the global warming impacts of fossil fuel production on our public lands. In fact, despite mounting calls for […]
