Fracking vs. Clean Air: Hearings Wrap-up
The EPA this week held public hearings on a proposal to ratchet up protection for public health and welfare in the face of oil and gas drilling. In Pittsburgh, Denver, and today in Dallas, the message...
View ArticleGreed Trumps Clean Energy at PNM
At last, the truth is coming out. PNM is fighting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to clean up the company’s coal-fired San Juan Generating Station not because they want to protect...
View ArticleIt’s About Time
That I posted something, yes. The blog has been pretty dormant for a year or so now, but I’m going to try to pick things up again now and get the word out about what’s news in the American West when...
View ArticleTime for EPA to Come Clean on Methane
It’s only Wednesday and it’s already been a busy week on the issue of methane, a greenhouse gas that’s like carbon on steroids and is released extensively in the production of fossil fuels: There’s...
View ArticleSmoggy Skies in the American West Point to Fossil Fuels
Benjamin Storrow with the Casper Star Tribune reported this past weekend on the prospect of eight Wyoming counties (effectively 1/3 of the state) falling into violation of federal limits on ozone, the...
View ArticleNew Greenhouse Gas Data: Carbon Creeping Up and Methane Still Underestimated
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday released its annual report on greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s largest sources of pollution, revealing that we still have enormous progress...
View ArticleTaking Aim at Utah’s Coal Polluters
Last week, WildEarth Guardians joined the Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association in calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to finally clean up the Bonanza coal-fired...
View ArticleRecap of The Peoples Climate March
On Saturday, WildEarth Guardians in Denver joined our brothers and sisters in D.C. and throughout the world in the Peoples Climate March. It was a truly inspiring act of resistance to the climate...
View ArticleCoalition Calls Out EPA on Fracking Wastewater Agreement With New Mexico
WildEarth Guardians joined a coalition this week in calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw from an illegal agreement with the State of New Mexico that threatens to open the...
View ArticleEPA Dismisses Public, Maintains Collusion With Oil and Gas Industry
Last month, WildEarth Guardians led a coalition of environmental, health, and community advocates in calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw from an illegal agreement with the...
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