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Mega Load case environmental law Advocates for the West photographed by Dave King
October 17, 2013

Wall Street Journal reports: our suit is costing GE money.

Road Too Far: GE Strains to Deliver Energy Colossus By Kate Linebaugh – Wednesday, 16 October 2013 General Electric Co. has a colossal problem. The industrial conglomerate makes a machine the size of a Space Shuttle orbiter that can extract crude oil from the depths of the Canadian oil sands. But first it has to…

August 9, 2013

AW files suit to stop megaloads from traveling up Highway 12

On the evening of August 8th, Advocates for the West partnered with the Nez Perce Tribe and filed a suit against the US Forest Service for failing to uphold the requirements of a federal court order issued in February stating that the USFS has a legal responsibility to protect the Wild and Scenic River corridor. This latest suit alleges that the USFS’s failure…