Advocates for the West and a coalition of local and national conservation organizations today filed an appeal seeking to reverse federal agencies’ unlawful approval of the Stibnite Gold Project and halt Perpetua Resources’ initial mine construction. The proposed open-pit cyanide leach gold mine would jeopardize public health and clean water, harm threatened species and permanently […]
By Claire Sallee This is why we can’t have nice things. It’s a saying I have been using way too much after Trump was reelected for a second term. In his most recent escapade of disrupting protected and valued public lands, he has signed executive orders to virtually eliminate Bears Ears National Monument and Grand […]
Advocates for the West and a coalition of local and national conservation organizations on Friday filed an appeal to halt Perpetua Resources’ construction of the Stibnite Gold Project in the headwaters of Idaho’s South Fork of the Salmon River. Perpetua has insisted on moving forward with “full construction” despite the conservation groups’ pending lawsuit that seeks […]
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Josepine Blatny Summer Law Clerk Josephine (she/her) is a rising third year law student at Lewis and Clark Law School. After her first year of law school, she clerked with California Coastkeeper Alliance where she assisted the organization in enforcing the Clean Water Act through industrial stormwater pollution litigation. This past year she was involved […]
We’re joined by Advocates for the West founding Executive Director Laird Lucas, Senior Attorneys Laurie Rule and Todd Tucci, Staff Attorney Hannah Goldblatt, and board Chair Deborah Clothier. We share stories from the people and places touched by Laird’s work, honoring the dedication and grit that shaped more than two decades of impact, as Laird […]
Advocates for the West and a coalition of local and national conservation groups filed a motion for preliminary injunction to halt Perpetua Resource’s pending construction of the Stibnite Gold Project, an open-pit cyanide leach gold mine in the headwaters of the South Fork of the Salmon River. The motion asks to halt construction of the […]
Advocates for the West, along with six Utah-based and national conservation organizations, amended our February lawsuit today over the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s failure to adequately protect the threatened Mojave desert tortoise when reapproving the Northern Corridor Highway in January 2026. The long-opposed highway would tear through critical […]
Last week, the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) filed litigation against the cities of Burley and Rexburg over ongoing violations of the federal Clean Water Act at wastewater treatment plants they operate. This action comes after Snake River Waterkeeper (SRW) and the Idaho Conservation League (ICL), represented by attorneys at Advocates for the West, […]
We’re joined by Shannon Wheeler, Chairman of the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee; Sydney Anderson, Mining and Policy Manager at Idaho Rivers United; Josh Johnson, Central Idaho Director at the Idaho Conservation League; and Bryan Hurlbutt, Staff Attorney at Advocates for the West. The panel unpacks the far-reaching risks the massive Stibnite Gold Mine proposal […]