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EPA and Army Corps illegally approved costly project without considering practicable alternatives

Friends of the Earth, Healthy Gulf, and Sierra Club filed suit over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ illegal approval of a massive pumping station that would have devastating impacts on some of the country’s richest wetlands and hundreds of species of wildlife in a sparsely developed area of Mississippi.

The Colorado Warehouse Map provides a helpful visual of warehouse concentration throughout the state and within the Denver Metro North Front Range Ozone Nonattainment Area.

A summary of quotes reacting to attacks on public lands contained in the House Natural Resources reconciliation bill.

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

The monuments comprise over 5 million acres of national public lands across the west

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to safeguard biodiversity, to advance a just transition to clean energy, and to protect people’s health. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Megan Kemp, Colorado Policy Advocate, Rocky Mountain Office: “(The bill) fails to provide critical safeguards for utility customers, neglects to consider impacts on communities and undermines our progress toward meeting critical climate goals.”

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “This proposed project is going to impact over 90,000 acres of wetlands. That’s three times the amount that EPA prohibited in the veto. For them now to reverse course and say the veto doesn’t apply is unheard of.”

For over a hundred years, the Antiquities Act of 1906 has protected America’s natural and historic wonders from mining, drilling, looting, and industrial development.

Utah sought to dismiss lawsuit over its failure to protect the Great Salt Lake

A state district court judge paved the way for a landmark public trust suit over Utah’s failure to protect the Great Salt Lake to move forward, despite the objections of state officials.

Court ruling safeguards right to access public land via corner crossing

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the public’s right to access millions of acres of public land across the West via corner crossing.

Mike Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “They claim that the federal bureau should be required to sell oil and gas leases whenever the industry wants them. If they have their way, then places that get leased to the oil industry under the Trump Administration won’t ever be the same after they get drilled.”

Mike Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “It’s about padding the profits for Trump’s donors in the oil and gas industry. What they’re going to be doing is stockpiling federal oil and gas leases and getting Trump to do things that are going to increase demand for their product.”

Stu Gillespie, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “If the Corps is really handing out permits without checking compliance to the Clean Water Act, it could hurt Colorado, so the state will have to be vigilant.”

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “We’ve been privileged to follow the lead of 11 Tribal Nations with deep cultural ties to the monument, and we will continue fighting to protect it from uranium mining and other threats so that future generations can benefit from this irreplaceable landscape.”