"Everyone is jammed into a yellow school bus, chattering in anticipation of a planned snowshoe outing at Snoqualmie Pass, some 40 minutes outside Seattle. Joe Camacho, an educator and one of the trip leaders, begins an orientation, holding up a pair of gaiters. The coverings are zipped together for storage in a way that, to [...]
Dylan Brown, E&E reporter Published: Friday, July 15, 2016 "The Obama administration announced a deal with the Navajo Nation today to fund cleanup work at 16 abandoned uranium mines, which are part of a toxic legacy on the nation's largest Native American reservation. The Justice Department agreed to fund trusts for cleaning up high-priority sites among [...]
“Since contact, our voices have been the target for silencing for the greed, consumption, and power of the colonial settler society. Time has come for us to be silent no more. This is an opportunity for our voices to not only be heard, but amplified to stop the environmental and human injustices related to [...]
President Obama has a clear choice: stand up for the climate or cater to fossil fuel interests. This week, the House Committee on Natural Resources passed a bill <https://morningconsult.com/2016/07/06/offshore-drilling-bill-aims-bigger-bids-undermine-protesters/> that would require lease sales for offshore oil and gas drilling to be held online rather than in person. Meanwhile, the Obama administration has already moved [...]
SANTA FE, N.M.— In the wake of public pressure, the Bureau of Land Management today postponed its controversial July 20 lease sale to auction oil and gas leases across 13,000 acres in New Mexico. Earlier this week citizens discovered the sale location had been changed from Santa Fe, N.M. to Roswell, with only oil and [...]
by Lorraine Chow "This week—as thousands of Americans urge awareness to the destruction caused by oil bomb trains—an oil field in San Juan County, New Mexico erupted in flames Monday night, highlighting the continued and increasing dangers of the fossil fuel industry. The fire broke out around 10:15 p.m. Monday at a fracking site owned and [...]
"Last night, an explosion at a WPX Energy oil well pad near Counselor, in the Chaco Canyon area, ignited a massive fire that enveloped 36 large oil storage tanks and burned through the night, causing evacuations and the temporary closure of Highway 550. The event demonstrates the increasing dangers of modern fossil fuel development, highlights [...]
A fire that started Monday night at a WPX-owned well near Nageezi was 75 percent extinguished as of 9 p.m. Tuesday. The fire burned 36 tanks storing crude oil and wastewater overnight and through Tuesday. It is being allowed to burn out in order to reduce leftover petroleum pollution, the company said. WPX says flames [...]
They must be feeling the pressure, because the Bureau of Land Management is playing dirty tricks on the behalf of the oil and gas industry. You won’t believe this, but the Bureau of Land Management secretly changed the location of their July 20 oil and gas lease sale from Santa Fe to Roswell. For two [...]
Go to http://www.sanjuancitizens.org/action-center/ to find action steps you can take to stop the oil & gas extraction that is taking place in and near Chaco Canyon. Tell the BLM that it is time to completely stop fracking and drilling on public lands!