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Resource management plan amendment process follows massive coal giveaways in Republican budget bill

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

Administration cites fake “energy emergency” in failing to produce draft EIS

Grizzlies face growing threats to their survival in the Northern Rockies. Here’s how we’re helping them come back from the brink.

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.

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “Coal has been on the decline for decades, not because of federal policies, but because it’s dirty and it’s increasingly unreliable as our coal fleet ages. And it can’t compete on a level playing field with renewable energy sources.”

Montana’s Colstrip plant asks Trump administration for clean air standard exemption

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “We’re in a moment right now as litigators. We will use the courts to continue to protect our clients and communities from the environmental harm the administration seeks to unleash. So many of these Trump executive orders portend a real onslaught of what’s to come. We’re ready for…

Jenny Harbine, Managing Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “It appears the design of the Trump administration is to unleash a host of harmful development activity in communities that sorely need the opportunities NEPA provides to have a voice. It’s creating chaos and gridlock, and much more troubling, it will endanger and silence communities that have used…

Coal is an expensive, dirty, and dangerous energy source. We’re not going back to it.

Motion to intervene filed in Montana suit over Yellowstone’s plans for America’s national mammal

The Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, alongside conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend Yellowstone National Park’s science-based bison management plan.

Emily Qiu, Attorney, Northern Rockies Office: “While we cannot speak specifically to the impact of staff cuts, we do appreciate that this deal should allow for a much needed review of the status of Arctic grayling, which we’re confident will show that the species needs protections.”

Government dismisses appeal of court decision limiting road building in grizzly, bull trout habitat

Motion to intervene filed in a lawsuit from Montana and Wyoming

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, alongside Tribal and conservation groups, filed a motion to join a lawsuit to defend the Biden administration’s 2024 decision ending new coal leasing on public lands in Wyoming and Eastern Montana’s Powder River Basin.

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals approved a motion from the federal government to dismiss its appeal of a decision limiting road building in grizzly bear and bull trout habitat in Flathead National Forest.

Upon reconsideration, judge rejects Idaho’s rare request to reverse decision