If you can attend a public comment hearing on May 7, 2018 in Colorado Springs, help us speak out for a speedy retirement of the Martin Drake coal-fired power plant >> The Martin Drake coal-fired power plant, located right in downtown Colorado Springs, Colorado, is a blight on […]
Trump and Zinke have been working extra hard to make good on Trump’s promise to bring coal back, as evident in the recent desperate attempt to save a failing mining company, Westmoreland Coal. On the table is a proposal by Westmoreland Coal to expand its Rosebud Coal Mine […]
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 […]
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 […]
While utility company PacifiCorp is hatching plans for more coal mining and more burning in the American West, WildEarth Guardians is stepping up to defend the climate and clean energy and put these plans to rest. If you recall, Portland, OR-based PacifiCorp owns and operates more coal-fired power […]
In case you missed it, WildEarth Guardians recently scored a major legal win for the climate and for keeping fossil fuels in the ground. Ruling the U.S. Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management violated federal law, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit held the agency failed […]
While President Trump and his Interior Secretary, Ryan Zinke, are pulling out all the stops to hand over our public lands to the fossil fuel industry, WildEarth Guardians is stepping up to confront these giveaways, defend the American West, and safeguard our climate. This month, we moved to […]
