Defending the West's Air
Air is essential to life.
Clean air is vital to all life on Earth. Unfortunately, many of our daily activities and the activities of industry release chemicals and particles into the air we breathe -- chemicals and particles that affect our health and the environment. Today’s air pollution clogs our lungs, impairs our views and is damaging the earth’s climate. The EPA estimates that about 141 million tons of pollution is emitted into the atmosphere each year in the United States.
It is urgent that we hold polluters accountable and clean up the air.
At the Western Environmental Law Center, we’re combining policy work and litigation to ensure we all have clean air to breathe. We are working strategically with partners to strengthen air quality standards and hold accountable polluters who are in violation.
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Reducing Risk of Climate Change from BLM actions
- This campaign focuses on the Southwest, Southern Rockies and Northern Rockies.
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VICTORY! WELC Propels New Mexico to Forefront of Global Warming Solutions
- The result: a pioneering rule requiring a host of industries – including power plants, oil refineries, and upstream oil and gas development operations – to report both major and minor source greenhouse gas emissions.
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Shining a Light on Dirty Energy & Mining
- Acting as local counsel for our allies at the Energy Minerals Law Center, we’re working to recover public records for Diné C.A.R.E. and the San Juan Citizens Alliance improperly withheld by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Protecting Public Health and the Environment from Big Dairies
- Confined animal feedlots, in this case Big Dairies with over 2,000 cows crammed into pens of a few acres, excrete tremendous amounts of manure (120 lbs/day per cow). WELC is working with several organizations to require the EPA and states to regulate these facilities to protect public health and the environment.
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Dairy Education Alliance
- Big Dairy’s relentless push for ever-greater production and consolidation has become a public health, environmental, and social disaster. The formation of the Dairy Education Alliance (DEA) is an effort to bring together the many individuals and organizations that have been working diligently to protect and educate the public about the true impacts of these animal production facilities.
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Citizens Bring Suit to Clean up Air Pollution from Industrial Dairies in Lower Yakima Valley
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Drilling the Climate: Colorado Oil and Gas Auction to Fuel Global Warming, BLM Ignoring its Responsibility to Protect Colorado’s Climate
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WELC Files Suit to Gain Release of Basic Public Documents Regarding the Proposed Desert Rock Power Plant Withheld by the BIA
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Tell state leaders to take action NOW on climate change!
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