Western Environmental Law Center (WELC)

Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) is creating people-powered change, and they need your help. Please read below to learn more about the issues they're working on and how you can get involved. Thank you!

Campaigns

  • Save Chaco Canyon from Fracking
    Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are ready to use the full power of the law to stop the Bureau of Land Management from prioritizing corporate income over the health of our environment and communities.
    7,706 of 8,000 Signatures
    Created by Natalie DeNault, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Stop the Use of Lethal M-44 "Cyanide Bombs" to Kill Native Wildlife!
    The Trump administration recently reauthorized the use of deadly sodium cyanide in wildlife-killing devices called M-44s on our public lands. These “cyanide bombs” were approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency despite inhumanely and indiscriminately killing thousands of animals each year by luring them in by smelly bait. Anything or anyone that pulls on the baited M-44 device can be killed or severely injured by the deadly capsule of sodium cyanide inside. In 2017 alone, M-44s temporarily blinded a child and killed three beloved family dogs in two incidents in Idaho and Wyoming, and accidentally killed an endangered wolf in Oregon. The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm and our expert attorneys are using the full power of the law to stop the use of dangerous, lethal sodium cyanide poison devices on public lands nationwide.
    34,525 of 35,000 Signatures
    Created by Michelle Loth, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Save Sacred Chaco Canyon from Fracking!
    Chaco Canyon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a sacred ancestral place for the Hopi, Navajo, and Pueblo people. Oil and gas development threatens the area’s rich cultural resources, treasured landscapes, and living native communities while ignoring federal law. Over 91% of Greater Chaco is already leased for oil and gas drilling, and after record-breaking protest comments in March 2018, Interior Secretary Zinke deferred the lease sale of over 4,000 acres of land in Greater Chaco, calling for more cultural study and consultation. But no additional study or consultation occurred. Although BLM quietly deferred parcels within the Farmington Field Office, the agency proceeded with the sale of 30 parcels and 41,000 acres of lands within the Rio Puerco Field Office, still within Greater Chaco and home to living Navajo communities and innumerable culturally sacred sites. The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm and our expert attorneys are committed to fighting in court to save Greater Chaco and its people from oil and gas exploitation and to transition away from dirty fossil fuels. Please help us take a stand.
    2,486 of 3,000 Signatures
    Created by Michelle Loth, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Protect Public Access on Public Lands!
    The Crazy Mountains are on public lands, yet are almost completely surrounded by checkerboarded private lands. Since the early 1900s, the public had longstanding access to these mountains and the U.S. Forest Service has always managed and maintained them as such, until recently. The U.S. Forest Service is neglecting its duty to protect and preserve public access in Montana’s Crazy Mountains. The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm and our expert attorneys will use the full power of the law in court to fight for the public’s right to access the Crazy Mountains. Please help us reopen public trails in Montana’s Crazy Mountains and sign and share this petition today!
    1,033 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Michelle Loth, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Stop Killing Wildlife in Colorado!
    Wildlife Services is a federal agency that conducts predator control on private, public, and tribal lands throughout Colorado. Predator control includes shooting, trapping, snaring, and aerial gunning to kill black bears, bobcats, mountain lions, and coyotes. Lethal poisons and chemicals are also used for predator control, imposing a risk to public health and safety. Wildlife Services is expanding this work in an attempt to increase mule deer populations for hunting, although the best available science suggests that predator control isn’t effective. Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, environmental law firm dedicated to defending wildlife in the West. Their expert attorneys are preparing to file suit against Wildlife Services about this matter.
    5,052 of 6,000 Signatures
    Created by Sarah Goeth, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Protect gray wolves from killings by Wildlife Services
    Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are ready to use the full power of the law and the courts to protect wolves. In December 2015 we won a case (Cascadia Wildlands v. Woodruff) that prohibits Wildlife Services from killing Washington’s wolves. Join us in extending these protections to wolves in Oregon!
    5,898 of 6,000 Signatures
    Created by Natalie DeNault, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Protect Endangered Fish in Oregon!
    Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, environmental law firm dedicated to defending wildlife in the West. On March 7, 2017, WELC served a Notice of Intent to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for failing to protect wild winter steelhead.
    631 of 800 Signatures
    Created by Michelle Loth, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Defend the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument!
    In January 2017, President Obama added 48,000 acres in Oregon and California to the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Two separate lawsuits were filed opposing the expansion of the monument in February 2017, both citing impact on the timber industry. The Western Environmental Law Center intervened in both lawsuits to defend the expansion.
    1,396 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Michelle Loth, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Tell Trump and Zinke GRIZZLY BEAR trophy hunting outside Yellowstone is UNACCEPTABLE
    The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are in court to protect grizzly bears from delisting. Please join us to send a message to the Trump administration by signing this petition and adding your comments to that you want grizzlies to fully recover as a natural and integral part of our landscape.
    1,693 of 2,000 Signatures
    Created by Michelle Loth, Western Environmental Law Center
  • Stop the dangerous Jordan Cove LNG Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline project!
    The Western Environmental Law Center and a coalition of conservation groups have challenged this LNG project for years, and we secured a great victory when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) rejected the Jordan Cove-Pacific Connector project in early 2016 after it was determined that the drawbacks of the pipeline outweigh its public benefits. Now it’s back thanks to the Trump Administration’s plans to allow fossil fuels to further exploit our natural heritage, our communities, and our climate. The Western Environmental Law Center is a nonprofit, public-interest environmental law firm. Our expert attorneys are ready to use the full power of the law to stop the dangerous and destructive Jordan Cove LNG Terminal and Pacific Connector Pipeline project. WELC will be submitting all signatures and comments below to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on July 10, 2017.
    779 of 800 Signatures
    Created by Michelle Loth, Western Environmental Law Center
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