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Mega Load case environmental law Advocates for the West photographed by Dave King
February 11, 2014

The Tortoise Trail

An ongoing saga of the wandering mega-load By Linwood Laughy February 11: Day 70 on the Tortoise Trail… Today General Electric’s giant water evaporator evades the rigors of a Montana winter in a warehouse in Bonner, 11 miles east of Missoula, while being “reconfigured” to meet Canadian transport requirements. Omega Morgan transporter will likely depart…

December 30, 2013

“Wolf Haters” and a letter to the US Forest Service

As most of us are painfully aware, wolf hunting in Idaho is an increasingly worrisome concern to those of us who understand the intrinsic value of maintaining a healthy population of wolves in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. Idaho in particular has received some glaringly bad press for its treatment of this issue, as highlighted in…

December 10, 2013

ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, WENDY WILSON

Boise, ID – December 2, 2013: Advocates for the West, a Boise-based nonprofit public interest environmental law firm, announces the appointment of Wendy Wilson as the organization’s incoming Executive Director. Laird Lucas, founder of AW, will continue with the organization and assumes a new role as Litigation Supervisor for the growing legal staff on January…

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…