Events for May 2025

September 14, 2023

The people affected by the new bonding rule

Imagine you’re a farmer. Your family’s had your farm for generations. Years ago, like many, you saw an opportunity to support your family by leasing your surface […]
September 7, 2023

You can make a big difference for our public lands on September 12 & 13!

Have you heard? The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has issued a new Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) in which they propose closing nearly a million […]
August 31, 2023

Ready to learn how oil and gas bonding reform can save taxpayers money?

We have some exciting breaking news — on September 12, at 6 pm, Western Colorado Alliance in conjunction with our friends at The Wilderness Society will host a one-hour webinar on the […]
July 21, 2023

We just scored an important win for public lands

Exciting news! The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has proposed updated rules pushing operators to clean up after themselves once they are finished with a well pad on […]
July 22, 2022

Tell the BLM to protect Colorado’s public lands!

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has been developing a new oil & gas management plan for Western Colorado. This plan will determine how two-million acres […]
June 24, 2022

Tell the BLM: We need a rulemaking now!

As gas prices continue to soar, executives of oil majors have enjoyed record profits at the expense of consumers. Now they are doubling down on their […]
September 29, 2021

Tell the BLM to protect our public lands!

After President Biden’s historic pause on leasing public lands came under attack in U.S. district court, the judge’s decision to resume federal leasing to oil & […]
June 18, 2021

What Biden’s “pause” means for us

[NOTE: This week, a U.S. district judge in Louisiana issued an order temporarily blocking the Biden administration’s pause on new oil and gas leasing on public […]
October 19, 2018

Judge cites climate in rejecting BLM plan to double drilling

[from a joint press release with Wilderness Workshop, Western Environmental Law Center, Natural Resources Defense Council and Sierra Club] On October 17, Judge Lewis T. Babcock […]