Late in the evening, on February 22, a U.S. District Court in California halted the Interior Department’s one-year suspension of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Methane Waste Prevention Rule. The judge called Interior Secretary Zinke’s suspension of the rule … Continued
In early November, four farmers and farm advocates representing Dakota Rural Action (DRA) flew to Washington, D.C., to advocate for a 2018 farm bill that supports America’s family farmers. DRA members Gerry Adolf, Kristi Mogen, and Stephanie Peterson met with … Continued
On November 10, the Powder River Basin Resource Council hosted a day-long soils health workshop led by award-winning regenerative farmer Gabe Brown. Over 150 ranchers, farmers, producers, and agriculture students attended. Also hosting the event were the Sheridan County Conservation … Continued
On January 17, Dakota Resource Council (DRC) members participated in a hearing in Dickinson to oppose the air quality permit for the proposed Davis Oil Refinery. The oil refinery is sited just three miles from Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Opposition … Continued
In the face of a statewide budget crisis, mineral extraction companies owe Wyoming taxpayers over $42 million in county taxes unpaid on their operations throughout the state. Last month, Powder River Basin Resource Council released a new report entitled Tax … Continued
Tyson Slocum, Energy Program Director at Public Citizen, delivered the Northern Plains Annual Meeting’s keynote speech in November. He provided us with a vantage point on our current place in history, focused on energy use, which is sometimes hard to … Continued
This report is the result of a collaboration between Appalachian Voices and the Western Organization of Resource Councils to assess the effect of Trump Administration policies on economic growth in coal-producing regions. By Colin Lauderdale & Erin Savage One year … Continued
For every step forward in 2017, the coal industry saw at least two steps backward. The slow unraveling of the industry will take time, but each passing month begs certain questions about the future more and more urgently. Will coal … Continued
This week should have brought long-overdue updates to rules preventing methane waste and limiting wasteful flaring of natural gas on public and tribal lands should have gone into effect. Despite the real need, a methane waste prevention rule did not go … Continued
Organizing efforts on federal methane standards kept WORC and its member groups busy throughout 2017. WORC beat the Trump administration in Congress and the courts. Without the persistence of WORC and the member groups, the methane rules could be wiped … Continued