Legal

Western Energy Alliance’s Legal Defense Fund (LDF) has been an effective force for protecting your assets in the West. Our cases target regulatory overreach on leasing, air quality, wildlife, financial regulation, and other issues that affect all operations, whether federal, tribal, or nonfederal.

For several years we have mounted a comprehensive defense of federal leasing and hence, the entire onshore federal oil and natural gas system. We’re in court defending nearly every lease sold since 2015, with a significant recent victory in Dakota Resources Council v. Interior Dept upholding the first sales of the Biden Administration and the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) greenhouse gas (GHG) analysis underpinning them. With that ruling, the GHG analysis BLM used enables thousands of other leases and new drilling permits to move forward.

But we don’t just focus on federal lands issues. We’re involved in cases challenging EPA methane rules, wildlife policies, a Department of Labor rule that aims to defund our industry, and a ban on the transport and storage of fossil fuels. Please consider supporting our legal efforts with a contribution to the Legal Defense Fund.