Just ask Donny Nelson, a fourth-generation farmer and rancher, who lives at ground zero for oil and gas drilling in North Dakota. “We’ve had oil on our ranch since the fifties,” he says. “And you don’t go out and look … Continued
On February 4, the U.S. trade ambassador and trade ministers of 11 other Asia-Pacific countries signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal in New Zealand. Signing the trade agreement means that negotiations are finished and President Obama can bring the TPP to Congress for “Fast … Continued
¡El poder para el pueblo! On January 30, Western Colorado Congress, the Hispanic Affairs Project and WORC sponsored a day-long training in Delta, Colorado, for new and emerging leaders on the principles of community organizing. An ethnically diverse group of … Continued
The recently passed federal budget bill extended production tax credits for clean, renewable energy. The tax credits help renewable energy compete with fossil fuel sources. Before leaving for the holidays, Congress passed a $1.15 trillion fiscal year 2016 spending bill to keep … Continued
Dakota Rural Action launched a new site to help members navigate South Dakota’s 2016 legislative session. The site includes a 2016 legislative guide, a breakdown on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’s report to the legislature, and an analysis … Continued
WORC’s latest newsletter, the Western Organizing Review, is hot off the press, featuring articles and columns on: Western states struggle with oil and gas radioactive waste The View from WORC – New WORC Chair Nancy Hartenhoff-Crooks introduces board officers Positive reception … Continued
Idaho Organization of Resource Councils members are celebrating a major victory for local food production. The Health and Welfare Committees in both chambers of Idaho’s state legislature unanimously passed rules making sales of non-hazardous homemade goods direct to consumers legal in the … Continued
Dakota Rural Action members scored a victory on Jan. 26 when the Brookings, SD, City Council approved a one-year pilot program to allow residents to raise chickens in their backyard. DRA’s Brookings Chicken Advocates have been organizing to legalize backyard chickens … Continued
This week, Dakota Resource Council members spoke out against a proposed 9,000-hog factory farm in Cass County, North Dakota, west of Fargo. DRC members are concerned about the community, economic and environmental impacts of the hog farm. But this single pig farm isn’t their only … Continued
On January 22, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its much anticipated draft rule to curb flaring and venting associated with oil and gas development on federal and tribal lands. WORC and its member groups have been pushing the … Continued