Events for May 2024

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 […]
July 30, 2018

Stand for Our Public Lands

US Dept of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is coming to Steamboat Springs next week and residents are organizing a big western Colorado “welcome” for him to […]
April 6, 2018

$1.9 billion and counting…

Tell Secretary of Interior Zinke to stop the waste by April 23 Delay in implementing BLM’s Methane Rule costs taxpayers millions “When you vent and flare […]
May 10, 2017

Victory for taxpayers and clean air!

Western Colorado residents cheer the survival of methane capture rule Grassroots power wins the day for taxpayers and clean air! Grand Junction— Western Colorado Congress and […]