Pebble Gets A Lifeline from The Trump Administration
The Trump administration is throwing a lifeline to the massive Pebble Mine planned near Alaska’s Bristol Bay, as regulators move toward undoing Obama-era environmental restrictions …
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White House Releases Plan to Ease Mining Rules
The Trump administration announced its strategy to bolster U.S. mineral mining operations, calling for quicker permit processes and greater private sector access to public lands. …
Will this impact fly fishing travel to the Island?
The Trump administration has ended the most popular forms of U.S. travel to Cuba, banning cruise ships and a heavily used category of educational travel …
The uncertain future of protected lands and waters
In 2017, the study noted, President Trump enacted two of the largest reductions of federally protected lands, shrinking Bears Ears by 85 percent and Grand-Staircase …
Trump Administration Pushes to Re-open Public Lands to Coal Leasing
The Trump administration has restarted an effort to reopen public lands to new federal coal leasing. In today’s action, the Interior Department responded to a court order …
Trump administration withdraws support of Klamath Dam removal
The Trump Administration has withdrawn the previous administration’s support for the removal of four dams on the Klamath River in Southern Oregon and Northern California. …
A Prelude to Pebble?
The Trump administration has rubber-stamped the Rosemont Ranch mine, an open-pit Copper-Silver-Molybdenum mine in the Santa Rita Mountains of Arizona, about 30 miles southeast of …
Trump’s push to open up Arctic and Atlantic to oil and gas drilling declared illegal
A federal judge in Alaska declared late Friday that President Trump’s order revoking a sweeping ban on oil and gas drilling in the Arctic and …
Oil Executives Laugh At Unprecedented Access To Donald Trump
A recording obtained by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows a bunch of oil executives celebrating — and making jokes — about their …
Coming to a Coastline Near You
The Trump administration is likely to open up portions of the Atlantic to oil and gas drilling despite opposition from East Coast states, a U.S. …