Most Recent Cases
01/03/2012
Advocates for the West represents Idaho Conservation League (ICL) in this lawsuit against EPA for failing to timely approve or disapprove important water quality standards in Idaho.
In 2006, Idaho adopted a new fish consumption rate, which estimates the amount of fish people catch and eat from...
11/29/2011
On behalf of Winter Wildlands Alliance, Advocates for the West has brought a case against the U.S. Forest Service for not managing and regulating snowmobiles as it does other off-road vehicles. In 2005, the Forest Service issued a new rule that requires every National Forest to designate what...
11/03/2011
Advocates for the West is representing Snowlands Network, Winter Wildlands Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity in a case regarding better management of snowmobile use on National Forest land in California. Snowmobiles create air pollution through emissions that far surpass...
10/03/2011
Advocates for the West recently sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its refusal to protect the pygmy rabbit as an threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The pygmy rabbit is a native rabbit once found throughout the Great Basin, in recent years rabbit populations...
04/18/2011
After a 2005 lawsuit by Advocates on behalf of ICL, Atlanta Gold agreed to get a permit under the Clean Water Act for pollution discharging from a mine adit near Atlanta, Idaho into Montezuma Creek, a tributary of the Middle Fork Boise River.
Atlanta Gold got its permit, but the pollution...
04/04/2011
Advocates for the West represents Idaho Conservation League, Idaho Rivers United, and Golden Eagle Audubon Society in a challenge to the Forest Service approval of Canadian mining company Mosquito Gold’s plan to explore for copper and molybdenum in the headwaters of Grimes Creek on...
