Protecting America’s Public Lands and Waters from Drilling

Montana Senators Approve "Sell Off Steve" for BLM Director

HELENA -- Today Montana Senators Tim Sheehy and Steve Daines voted to approve Steve Pearce as Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). 

Sierra Club Responds to Trump Administration Stripping California Public Lands Conservation

SACRAMENTO — Yesterday, the Trump administration finalized its rescission of the BLM Public Lands Rule, eliminating much-needed modern safeguards for America’s public lands through a process that limited public participation and ignored clear public opposition.

Colorado Sierra Club Responds to Trump Administration Stripping Conservation from Public Lands

DENVER — Yesterday, the Trump administration finalized its rescission of the BLM Public Lands Rule, eliminating much-needed modern safeguards for America’s public lands through a process that limited public participation and ignored clear public opposition. The decision advances a broader effort to weaken public land protections while prioritizing extractive industries, like drilling, mining, and logging, over conserving public lands and ensuring recreational access. 

Trump Administration Moves to Strip Conservation from America’s Public Lands

Washington, DC - The Trump Administration today finalized its rescission of the Public Lands Rule, eliminating much-needed modern safeguards for America’s public lands through a process that limited public participation and ignored clear public opposition.

Sierra Club Statement on Interior’s Decision to Give Away 1.4 Million Acres of National Public Lands for Mining and Drilling Projects

The Department of the Interior announced today that it intends to transfer approximately 1.4 million acres of national public lands in Alaska’s Dalton Utility Corridor to the State of Alaska. The transfer follows the Trump administration’s unlawful earlier decision to revoke protections on more than two million acres of public lands north of the Yukon River and open them to mining and drilling activity.

Unprecedented Alliance Highlights Need for Real Affordable Housing Solutions Without Sacrificing Public Lands

'Shared Ground' policy framework affirms protecting public lands, expanding affordable housing are complementary, not competing, priorities

Interior Plans to Further Gut Staffing Levels as Part of New Initiative

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, the Department of the Interior announced a new scheme to downsize its workforce. 

FOIA Documents Reveal Trump Administration Ordered Fish and Wildlife Service to Change Materials About Indigenous Peoples

Changes recommended at wildlife refuges, fish hatcheries, offices reveal Interior’s contradictory approach to implementing executive order

Lawsuit challenges Trump’s massive public lands giveaway in Alaska

Ten Alaska and national groups sued the Interior Department today for unlawfully  removing federal protections over public lands in an area stretching from the Yukon River to the  Brooks Range. These lands had been protected for over 50 years and subject to federal oversight that intended to ensure Arctic health and a stable corridor for the Dalton Highway and  Trans-Alaska Pipeline.  

Steve Pearce Committee Approval Endangers California's Public Lands

SACRAMENTO - This week the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee voted 11-9 down party lines to move forward the nomination of Steve Pearce for Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Pearce is facing steep backlash from conservation, hunting and outdoor groups for his radical positions on land management.