Statement: Bill introduced to protect Greater Chaco Canyon from further drilling
Ninety percent of the Greater Chaco Landscape has already been leased for oil and gas development
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. She sits on the Steering Committee of the Arctic Defense Campaign and co-coordinates the Climate Forests Campaign. Ellen previously worked as the organizing director for Environment America’s Climate Defenders campaign and managed grassroots campaign offices across the country. Ellen lives in Denver, where she likes to hike in Colorado’s mountains.
Posts by Ellen Montgomery
How Copper Mines Pollute
Toxic chemicals associated with copper mines can pollute the environment, causing serious harm to plants, animals and people.
Help protect the Tongass, Earth’s largest temperate rainforest
The Tongass is a wild, untamed Alaskan forest, home to wildlife from flying squirrels to endangered wolves. But the Tongass is also in great danger.
Organ Mountains Desert Peaks: A Decade of Conservation
Tell Home Depot: Protect the boreal forest
The majestic trees of the boreal forest are being cut down at a shocking rate—and many end up on a shelf at Home Depot. We’re calling on them to stop.
