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Press Releases
Aug 31, 2022
Environmental groups submit a formal petition demanding Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission protect the public against cumulative impacts of oil and gas production 

Groups call for the Commission to make rules to better protect Coloradans from ozone, air pollution, climate change, and to prevent increases in pollution in disproportionately impacted communities

Climate + Energy
#COCleanAir, #PressStatement
Aug 31, 2022
New Colorado poll: Don’t trophy hunt or trap gray wolves

64% of Colorado voters across all political affiliations and geographic areas believe that trophy hunting of wolves should not be allowed

Wildlife
#PressStatement, #ProtectWhatYouLove, #StopExtinction
Aug 30, 2022
122,000 call for protecting mature, old-growth federal forests and trees from logging

The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management fail to recognize commercial logging as a threat

Public Lands
#PressStatement, #Rewilding
Aug 24, 2022
Conservation groups respond to Utah lawsuit challenging national monuments restoration

Guardians, allies vow to stand up to Utah’s challenge of President Biden’s restoration of the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments

Public Lands
#PressStatement
Aug 15, 2022
Climate bill headed to President Biden sacrifices public lands while locking out Indigenous and Frontline communities

Congress allowed the good in Inflation Reduction Act to be watered-down by provisions that fund polluters and expand fossil fuel leasing on public lands

Climate + Energy, Public Lands
#ClimateJustice, #KeepItInTheGround, #NoNewLeases, #PressStatement
Aug 12, 2022
Legal agreement blocks oil, gas leasing on 2.2 million acres in Colorado

Bureau of Land Management to reconsider plan, protect Gunnison sage grouse

Climate + Energy
#ClimateJustice, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement
Aug 12, 2022
Judge reinstates Obama-era coal leasing moratorium on federal lands

Ruling halts all coal leasing on federal lands until the Bureau of Land Management completes a more sufficient environmental analysis

Climate + Energy, Public Lands
#ClimateJustice, #KeepItInTheGround, #NoNewLeases, #PressStatement
Aug 9, 2022
Conservationists hail scientists’ western rewilding blueprint as “a major call to action” to the Biden administration

Ambitious network of protected areas, with wolf and beaver restoration as a centerpiece, a sound strategy for restoring native ecosystems and wildlife diversity

Public Lands
#EcosystemRestoration, #PressStatement, #Rewilding
Aug 5, 2022
Lawsuit challenges Washington’s failure to enact wolf management rules

Requirements for nonlethal measures sought for state endangered species

Wildlife
#DefendCarnivores, #PressStatement, #StopExtinction
Aug 4, 2022
Federal court cites human health, climate costs in rejecting massive Wyoming, Montana coal mining plan

Over 43% of all coal produced in the U.S., and over 85% of all federal coal produced in the U.S., comes from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming and Montana

Climate + Energy
#ClimateJustice, #KeepItInTheGround, #PressStatement