Last weekend, I had the chance to swing through the Powder River Basin of northeastern Wyoming and southeastern Montana, a region literally at the epicenter of the fossil fuel industry’s attacks on our climate. If you haven’t heard of the Powder River Basin, let me acquaint you. The […]
This past week, WildEarth Guardians moved to block the U.S. Bureau of Land Management from auctioning off more than 15,000 acres of public lands in southeastern New Mexico for fracking. The appeal comes as President Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Ryan Zinke, is steadily working to pull out […]
Just before the Fourth of July holiday weekend, WildEarth Guardians moved in a big way to defend the climate, filing a brief in federal court calling on a judge to block any more auctioning off U.S. public lands for fracking. It’s the first-ever federal court case to […]
Last week, WildEarth Guardians’ Climate and Energy Program staff took to the field, getting a first hand look at how fossil fuels are destroying our public lands and our climate. More importantly, we got a chance to see first hand why we need to be rising up, confronting […]
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 […]
