Today, we joined 20 other national and state-based conservation and advocacy groups to send a letter to President Biden urging his administration to continue to resist efforts by the oil lobby and its allies in Congress to needlessly lease more public lands fo...
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Leading Conservation Groups Launch ‘The Coalition for Oil and Gas Reform,’ Urging Reform Before Oil and Gas Lease Sales Resume
Coalition pushes Interior Department to act quickly to implement the reforms outlined in its report For Immediate Release: February 14, 2022Contact: Abby Grehlinger, abby@team-arc.com (WASHINGTON, DC) — Today, leading national and western-based environment...
Federal District Court Judge Overturns Oil & Gas Lease Sales on Public Lands in Southwest Colorado
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 10, 2022 CONTACTS: Megan Mueller, Rocky Mountain Wild, 303-704-9760Hilary Cooper, San Miguel Co. Commissioner, 970-728-3844Jimbo Buickerood, San Juan Citizens Alliance, 970-259-3583 Federal District Court Judge Overturns Oil &...
Federal Judge Overturns Oil, Gas Lease Sales on 58,000 Acres of Public Lands in Colorado
A federal judge late Tuesday overturned the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s decision to lease 58,000 acres of public land in western Colorado for oil and gas extraction, agreeing with conservation groups that fracking and drilling will worsen air quality in...
Oil and Gas Rules Protect Wildlife Story Map
Interactive story map shows how oil & gas rules effective January 15, 2021 protect wildlife habitats.
2020 Maps of Oil and Gas Development
See where drilling is occurring and what lands have been leased in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. The high resolution maps are suitable to be printed as posters.
PRESS RELEASE: Rocky Mountain Wild Releases Research and Online Tool Showing Interior Department’s Destruction of Wildlife Corridors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDATE: Thursday, February 6, 2020CONTACT: Erin McCann303-746-2365 Launch Marks Two-Year Anniversary of DOI Order Promising to Protect Wildlife Corridors DENVER – Today, Rocky Mountain Wild launched an interactive online tool that sh...
We’re Stronger Together: Health and Wildlife Activists Ally for the Win
By: Paul Millhouser, Rocky Mountain Wild In response to public pressure in the wake of fatalities arising from abandoned gas lines, the General Assembly passed and Governor Polis signed into law Senate Bill 181, changing the mission of the Colorado Oil and Gas...
Lawsuit Challenges Oil and Gas Lease Sales on Public Lands in Colorado & Utah
Development of the Leases Threatens Public Health and Nearby Dinosaur National Monument FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 27, 2018 Media Contacts: Matthew Sandler, Rocky Mountain Wild, (303) 579-5162, matt@rockymountainwild.org Diana Dascalu-Joffe, Center for B...
Colorado County and Conservation Groups Sue Trump Administration Again Over Southwest Colorado Oil and Gas Leases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 2, 2018 San Miguel County, Rocky Mountain Wild, the San Juan Citizens’ Alliance, and Conservation Colorado filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management (BLM) over the agency’s decision to ...