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TU stands up for Snake River salmon in congressional hearing
Trout Unlimited vice president of government affairs, Lindsay Slater, represented salmon advocates in Congress Tuesday at a hearing ominously titled, “Left in the Dark: Examining the Biden Administration’s Efforts to Eliminate the Pacific Northwest’s Clean Energy Production.” Slater, who grew up on a fifth-generation family farm on the Wallowa River in eastern Oregon, told the…
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Defending Protections for Bristol Bay
Bristol Bay Orgs & TU file briefs in State of Alaska Lawsuit Against EPA In January 2023, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized Clean Water Act 404(c) safeguards for the headwaters of Bristol Bay, Alaska. These protections prohibit the proposed Pebble Mine and were widely celebrated by Bristol Bay tribes, the commercial fishing industry, anglers…
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TU calls on the BLM for oil and gas rulemaking to keep trout habitat healthy
A Q&A with TU’s western energy director Tasha Sorensen on the continued need to update oil and gas rulemaking procedures With a new balance of power in D.C. taking hold and a new Congress settling into their duties, a familiar problem remains for anglers and conservationists across the West: speculative oil and gas leasing on…
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Six “lame duck” wishes for trout and salmon
Congress’ lame-duck session offers opportunities for trout and salmon The dust has (mostly) settled following the 2022 midterm elections, and next month a new Congress will be sworn into office. For Trout Unlimited, next year’s 118th congressional session represents an opportunity to forge new relationships and drive our coldwater conservation priorities. But while your newspaper…
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The Clean Water Act at 50
Landmark law is still at work keeping waters clean from the source to cities As 50th birthday celebrations go, it was a wet and cold affair. This week, I joined environmental policymakers from the White House and Congress in marking the anniversary of the Clean Water Act, one of the most important laws signed in…
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Fifty years on, Supreme Court case threatens to upend the Clean Water Act
Conservation is a marathon, and if ever we needed proof, consider what is playing out in the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years to the month after the passage of the Clean Water Act, justices heard arguments this week in a case that could upend protections for more than half the nation’s wetlands—and if the plaintiffs…
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‘No constituency for orange rivers’
It’s time for Congress to jump-start abandoned mine cleanups In testimony before Congress, Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood pressed lawmakers to clear the way for “Good Samaritan” agencies and groups like TU to clean up pollution from abandoned hardrock mines that plague the landscape. Chris Wood's testimony begins at 00:49 Every single day,…
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