WORC and a coalition of health, community, environmental groups are intervening in a lawsuit to defend new methane rules that would prevent the waste of natural resources, save money for taxpayers, and significantly reduce harmful emissions that affect public health … Continued
Get-out-the-vote (GOTV) efforts by Western Native Voice helped to increase Native American turnout on Montana’s seven Native reservations. Phone calls, rides to the polls, and door knocking bumped turnout in Native communities from 57 percent in 2012 to 59 percent … Continued
Independent ranchers received good news this week. On December 14, the Grains Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration announced the Farmer Fair Practices Rules. The rules contain an interim final rule on competitive injury, a proposed rule on unfair practices and … Continued
North Dakota voters decided to keep an anti-corporate farming law. Dakota Resource Council member Jeri Lynn Bakken takes after the North Dakota Farm Bureau for filing suit against the law in this letter-to-the-editor in the Dickinson Press. This past June, … Continued
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently released its final rule addressing the waste of natural gas via flaring, venting, and leaks. Since 2013, the WORC network has advocated for the finalization of the rule. The purpose of a federal … Continued
WORC teamed with 14 national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans to take legal steps to defend new standards that reduce natural gas waste on public and tribal lands, protect public health, and … Continued
On November 1, Canadian Transport Minister Marc Garneau delivered on his promise to phase out DOT-111 rail cars from Canada. DOT-111 cars are the rail cars responsible for the fiery derailments throughout the United States starting in 2012. The biggest fiery … Continued
Groundwater contamination in the Pavillion area is not just about fracking. The real story is the historic regulatory capture and incompetence that led the state of Wyoming to permit extensive gas development near people’s homes and water wells under a … Continued
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is dead, for now. Democratic and Republican leaders have indicated Congress will not consider the TPP this year. In September, Western Colorado Congress (WCC) member Wink Davis met with Congressional offices. He was as part of … Continued
WORC welcomes cuts on methane pollution on federal and tribal lands Today, the Obama Administration issued final standards to reduce flaring and venting associated with oil and gas development on federal and tribal lands. The Western Organization of Resource Councils … Continued