Last June, I traveled to Moonstone Farm near Montevideo, Minnesota to participate in their annual women’s gathering. A ceremony was held there, wherein congregants combined water from sources important to us and pledged to defend the resource from harm. I … Continued
Use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to rollback Obama Administration rules has been a subject of controversy since the start of the Trump Administration. The CRA is an obscure process used only one time prior to 2017. Organizations, pundits, … Continued
In the coming days, the Senate will consider Trump nominee Scott Pruitt for the role of administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. As EPA head, Pruitt would be in charge ofenforcing the Clean Air Act, Safe Drinking Water Act and … Continued
Mountain West voters weighed in on the Trump Administration’s priorities for managing the use and protection of national public lands in a new Colorado College State of the Rockies Project Conservation in the West Poll released today. The poll surveyed … Continued
WORC and its allies got a big win when Federal Judge Scott Skavdahl rejected efforts January 16 to block new methane standards by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that would reduce waste of natural gas on federal and tribal … Continued
A family farm and ranch organization filed a motion January 13 in U.S. District Court alongside conservation groups to defend a pause in the outdated federal coal leasing program against a legal challenge. The coal leasing pause was put in … Continued
A January 11 report on the review of the federal coal program received praise from members of WORC. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced the review a year ago in response to calls from citizens across the nation, including … Continued
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