Tribal Climate Change Guide

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is part of the Pacific Northwest Tribal Climate Change Project (TCCP). The TCCP is part of the L.I.G.H.T. Foundation (LF), is an independent, Indigenous-led, conservation 501(c)(3) nonprofit established on the Colville Indian Reservation in the traditional territory of the Nespelem Tribe in present-day north central Washington State. LF supports the restoration and cultivation of native Plant and Pollinator Relatives and the culturally respectful conservation of habitats and ecosystems which are climate resilient and adaptive. For more information about LF, visit: https://thepnwlf.org/. For more information about the Tribal Climate Change Project, visit: https://tribalclimate.uoregon.edu/. If you would like to add information to this guide, please email kathy.lynn.or@gmail.com.

Tribal, environmental groups sue over methane rule delay

Type

Literature

Publication

Page, Samantha. 2017. Tribal, environmental groups sue over methane rule delay. ThinkProgress.

Year Published

2017

Organization

ThinkProgress

Description

The Trump administration has made rolling back environmental protections one of its primary — and arguably most successful — initiatives. But at every turn, the federal agencies in charge of these rules are being challenged in the courts. A coalition of tribal and environmental groups, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit Monday, challenging the administration’s two-year stay of the methane waste reduction rule, a regulation that required oil and gas producers on public lands to monitor and fix methane leaks. The Bureau of Land Management rule had already been finalized.

Geography

United States

Website

https://thinkprogress.org/blm-lawsuit-methane-waste-tribes-2eeecb864803/

The Tribal Climate Change Guide is supported through partnerships between the University of Oregon Environmental Studies Program and the North Pacific Landscape Conservation Cooperative, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals and the Environmental Protection Agency Region 10 Tribal Program.
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