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Western Organization of Resource Councils is a regional network of grassroots community organizations that include 15,190 members and 39 local chapters. WORC helps its member groups succeed by providing training and coordinating issue work.

Oct
10

USDA Wants to Let Agrochemical Corporations Make the Rules On Genetically Engineered Crops

With their tragic history on the environment and human health, should Corporate Agribusinesses really be able to regulate their own genetically modified crops? This article first appeared in WORC's quarterly newsletter the Western Organizing Review. Subscribe to WORC's blog! This summer, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), announced a proposed rule to give up their authority to regulate the…

Oct
09

Federal Response to Oil and Gas Bonding Leading Toward an Orphaned Well Crisis

In opposition to national “Energy Dominance,” policies, most Western states work to strengthen oil and gas bonding standards. Subscribe to WORC's blog! Federal oil and gas leases have been offered…

Oct
01

WCA’s Community Center Campaign: In Loss, There is Great Achievement

Grand Junction’s Community Center may have failed at the ballot box, but it was a win for grassroots organizing in the Grand Valley. Reprinted from Western Colorado Alliance’s newsletter. Subscribe…

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Farm and ranch families cultivating good food, healthy land and rural vitality.

New WORC report on why Congress and states should act now to protect coalfield communities.

When oil & gas moves in, your community is changed forever.

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USDA Wants to Let Agrochemical Corporations Make the Rules On Genetically Engineered Crops

Federal Response to Oil and Gas Bonding Leading Toward an Orphaned Well Crisis

WCA’s Community Center Campaign: In Loss, There is Great Achievement

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Now is the Time to End Self-Bonding

Too Good to Be True

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