10 Million Acres Leased for Oil and Gas by Obama, Yet Climate Change Consistently Ignored WildEarth Guardians and Physicians for Social Responsibility today filed a landmark federal lawsuit to defend our climate, our health, and American public lands from widespread oil and gas leasing, drilling, and fracking. Plaintiffs are challenging 397 leases spanning almost 380,000 [...]
The Dakota Access pipeline threatens to destroy our sacred ground. I am defending the land and water of my people, as my ancestors did before me. People against the Dakota Access pipeline chant in opposition last week at a site where a roadway was being constructed to begin the process of building the pipeline. Photograph: [...]
"A new NASA-led study has found 25 primary sources of a 2,500-square-mile cloud of methane half the size of Delaware that hangs over the Four Corners and can be seen from space. In fact, satellite images of it in 2014 prompted the study. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, joined by researchers from the California Institute of [...]
Understanding the threats that climate change poses to human health can help us work together to lower risks and be prepared. Climate change threatens human health, including mental health, and access to clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food, and shelter. All Americans, at some point in their lives, are vulnerable to the impacts of [...]
By Jason Schwartz, Greenpeace | Report "To understand just how deeply our lawmakers have drunk the Kool-Aid brewed by industry groups like the American Petroleum Institute, look no further than Colorado and Virginia, two states with Democratic governors who have pretty much sold out their contituents to the oil and gas industry. John Hickenlooper and [...]
WildEarth Guardians Petition Granted, Will Ensure Coal Companies Pay Up and Guarantee Reclamation Contact: Jeremy Nichols, (303) 437-7663, jnichols@wildearthguardians.org Washington, D.C.—Responding to a petition filed by WildEarth Guardians, the U.S. Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement today announced it intends to overhaul regulations to ensure coal companies fully pay for the cost of cleaning [...]
by DAN ELLIOTT, ASSOCIATED PRESS A puzzling concentration of the greenhouse gas methane over the Southwestern United States appears to come mostly from leaks in natural gas production, scientists said Monday. Researchers identified more than 250 sources of a methane hot spot over the Four Corners region of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah. They [...]
Fracktivists look to exercise local control over energy development this November. by Joshua Zaffos The long wait for Colorado fractivists appears to be over: Two ballot initiatives that would greatly limit hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and natural gas in the state are likely heading before voters this November. The initiatives would mark the first [...]
As of Wednesday, customers of the New Mexico utility Southwestern Public Service Company (SPS) will no longer have to worry about having to pay higher fees for producing their own solar energy. Most solar customers will even see reductions in their total surcharge fees. Earthjusticeand Vote Solar, in partnership with New Mexico attorney Jason Marks, [...]
Ellen M. Gilmer, E&E reporterOil and gas producers are taking the Obama administration to court over a slowdown in lease sales that they say is linked to the "keep it in the ground" movement.The Western Energy Alliance filed suit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico, challenging the Bureau of [...]