The most absurd thing about ConocoPhillips’ Willow Project
Before the company can extract oil so we can burn it and heat the planet, it would have to freeze ground that’s thawing because of global warming. Make sense?
Ellen
Montgomery
Director, Public Lands Campaign, Environment America
Started on staff: 2001
B.A., Oberlin College
Ellen runs campaigns to protect America’s beautiful places, from local beachfronts to remote mountain peaks. Prior to her current role, Ellen worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign. Ellen lives in Denver, where she likes to hike in Colorado’s mountains.
Posts by Ellen Montgomery
New data shows 72% bumble bee decline in parts of Colorado
Environment Colorado held a media event to highlight a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that finds a 72% bumble bee decline in Colorado from 1998-2020 pointing to neonic pesticides as one of the causes of bee die-offs.
New report finds 72% decline for western bumble bees in parts of Colorado
As the state legislature begins review of Colorado’s pesticide applicator rules, Environment Colorado is calling for new policy to restrict bee-killing neonic pesticides.
What is the roadless rule and what does it mean for the Tongass?
President Biden has restored "roadless rule" protections to the Tongass National Forest. What does that mean and will they last?
The “carbon bomb”: ConocoPhillips’ Arctic oil project would threaten wildlife and our climate
Home to caribou and polar bears, Alaska’s North Slope could soon also be the new home of a massive oil project that would pump the carbon emissions equivalent of 66 new coal-fired power plants into the atmosphere.