Dakota Rural Action racks up some wins as well as some lessons on winning future legislative fights. Dakota Rural Action continued its lobbying and coalition-building work in 2017-2018 bringing an agenda of positive change to the South Dakota Legislature. Fighting … Continued
Small-scale farmers are pushing the limits of how food is produced and distributed to local markets. This week, Homegrown Stories features three young farmers making local food available to urban markets, changing the way food goes from their farms to … Continued
Guest editorial lays out why the BLM’s approach to coal leasing lags behind both science and the coal market. The following piece was printed as a guest editorial in the Billings Gazette on May 4, 2018. The column, written by … Continued
Dakota Rural Action and others join forces to protest drilling for gold along Rapid Creek. Protesters shocked employees of the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources by descending on their Rapid City office on April 26th, 2018, demanding … Continued
Following the Crimes Against Critical Infrastructure Bill, which threatens 1st Amendment and property-owners’ rights, through the winding halls of the Wyoming Legislature. Legislation drafted by a consortium of the most powerful fossil fuel industries and corporate interests in the country … Continued
Meet Marita Growing Thunder, leader, activist and clothing designer. Western Native Voice Community Spotlight visited Marita Growing Thunder, Missoula-based activist and leader within the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) movement, to learn more about what inspires her activism and … Continued
Grassroots democracy: members of DRC, PRBRC, and Northern Plains head to the Capital to keep commonsense methane rules. Update: The comment period ended with well over 400,000 concerned residents weighing in. While 99.8% of the comments were in favor of … Continued
New WORC report shows that self-bonding for coal mines can end now. While most states have long since ended self-bonding, a few hold-outs remain across the west, including Wyoming, North Dakota, New Mexico, and Colorado. WORC’s new report, Now is … Continued
You need a live scoreboard to keep up with the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) 2016 Methane Waste Prevention Rule. The 2016 rule would reduce the amount of taxpayer-owned natural gas that oil and gas companies waste through flaring, venting, … Continued
Far from accepting the foregone conclusion that the EPA will follow the coal industry’s wishes and repeal the Clean Power Plan regardless of what the people say, members of Powder River Basin Resource Council, Northern Plains Resource Council, and Dakota … Continued