A Trump Insider Embeds Climate Denial in Scientific Research
Indur M. Goklany, a science and technology policy analyst at the Interior Department, embarked on a campaign to insert misleading language about climate change into …
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Trump Declares War On The Chesapeake Bay
The Trump Administration is proposing large cuts in funding for the program in charge of coordinating state and federal efforts to protect and restore the …
Trump Nominee Supports Selling Public Lands To Deal With Deficits
Touting the extremist view that in order to deal with Pres. Trump’s historic budget deficits, the federal government should sell off America’s public lands, …
Bears Ears And Grand Staircase Management Plans Likely Illegal
The recently released management plans for Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments, already slammed by tribes and environmentalists, may also violate federal law, according to …
Logging Companies Can Help Pick Which Trees Should Be Cut In The Tongass
More dismantling of environmental protections by the current admin. Newly released documents show the Trump administration has struck an unusual deal with the state of …
RIP Clean Water, Wetlands and Streams
Say goodbye to America’s wetlands and streams. Today the Trump administration will finalize a rule to strip away environmental protections for streams, wetlands and other …
Kneecapping NEPA
Signed by President Richard Nixon in 1970 the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires federal agencies to assess the impact of a major project …
Fox’s Tenure Guarding The Hen House Extended
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt on Tuesday extended the tenure of William Perry Pendley as effective head of the Bureau of Land Management — without a …
Mining company writing own environmental report
New documents reveal that the Trump administration has let a mining company take on a major role in writing the environmental report that is key to getting its …
BLM pulls back on Utah leases to do climate reviews
President Donald Trump’s “American energy dominance” strategy may actually be slowing development on Utah’s and other Western states’ public lands because the Bureau of Land …