Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

Climate Forests Campaign responds with statement

The neurotoxic pesticide harms children and the environment. There are no safe uses for chlorpyrifos.

Bill aims to undermine Forest Service efforts to protect old-growth trees

Environmental groups welcome needed action on old-growth, urge future action on mature forests

An international court ruled in favor of the people of La Oroya, Peru, finding that the government violated their right to a healthy environment.

Trapping and snaring will no longer be allowed during non-denning periods

Comments call for addressing major gaps on selling old growth and protecting mature forests

Northern Cheyenne Tribe and conservation groups urge Interior Department to act on coal

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Pō‘ai Wai Ola and Nā Kia‘i Kai raised concerns about the energy project’s impact on the Waimea River

The National Roadless Rule, now reinstated on the Tongass National Forest, safeguards vast tracts of old-growth forest that serve as important carbon sinks.

Wyoming sale was one of the largest oil and gas lease sales held on public lands

Sara Gersen, Attorney, Right to Zero: “SoCalGas’ hydrogen project threatens to increase lung-searing pollution in a community already breathing some of the most polluted air in the country.”

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “It’s been many years now of litigation, fighting to protect this remarkable place, and phew, we’re done. The monument and its expansion, it’s now the law of the land. People should go visit this summer. It’s a beautiful place.”

Gavin Kearney, Deputy Managing Attorney, Clean Energy Program: “The whole overarching point (of the federal rules) is that groundwater contamination is a big problem; it’s really unsafe, and we have to prevent it. You can’t let water in (to a coal ash impoundment); you can’t let water out; you can’t let water just sit inside…

Court rules that “corner-crossing” does not constitute trespass.

County’s environmental review again deemed unlawful, local permitting halted