Last Monday we hosted our 2nd Grassroots Lobby Day at the Idaho Capitol. IORC members met with legislators on both sides of the aisle to talk grocery tax and our concerns with oil and gas development in Idaho. We’ve got a lot to … Continued
January 31, 2017 Dear Member of Congress, On behalf of our millions of members and supporters, we write to urge you to oppose any effort to use the Congressional Review Act to overturn the Bureau of Land Management’s Methane … Continued
We are just finishing up the third week of the 2017 Idaho Legislative session and things are moving at a brisk pace. Changes are coming for oil and gas. Last year the Idaho Legislature approved legislation that put the pedal to … Continued
Billings, Mont. – Mabel Dobbs, a rancher from Weiser, Idaho, and member of the Western Organization of Resource Councils, issued the following statement on decisions this week affecting independent cattle producers. Today, the Grains Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration announced … Continued
Groups Seek to Join Lawsuit to Oppose Challenges to the Standards (December 2, 2016) Fifteen national, regional, tribal and local public health and environmental groups representing millions of Americans took legal steps today to defend new standards that will reduce … Continued
The Idaho Organization of Resource Councils (IORC) stands in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline and their ongoing fight to protect precious clean water, cultural resources, sovereign tribal lands, and human rights. … Continued
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 15, 2016 FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: Linda Weiss, Chair of WORC’s Oil & Gas Team, (701) 575-4234, or Scott Skokos or Kevin Dowling, WORC staff, (406) 252-9672 WORC welcomes cuts on methane pollution on federal and … Continued
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 15, 2016 Contact: Breland Draper, IORC, 208-991-4451; Christina Stucker-Gassi, 208-888-5024 Last week, the Obama administration announced that they would no longer push the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a bad trade deal that the administration hoped to pass … Continued
BY EILEEN STACHOWSKI AND CHRISTINA STUCKER-GASSI We want to make one thing clear, the Trans-Pacific Partnership has nothing to do with national security. It’s an agreement written by corporate lawyers to support multinational corporations and suppress the sovereignty of t … Continued
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 6, 2016 Contact: For quotes or questions contact Doug Paddock, IORC, 208-991-4451, dpaddock@iorcinfo.org Idahoans Need Greater Protections from Oil and Gas Development Boise, Idaho— Idaho Organization of Resource Councils asks for greater protections for people living … Continued