WASHINGTON, D.C. — Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that the Trump administration plans to break ground within two weeks on Trump’s proposed 250-foot triumphal arch at Memorial Circle, between Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery. The administration is preparing to start this project even though it has yet to receive final approval from federal planners.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In honor of the National Park Service’s (NPS) 110th anniversary, Loren Blackford, the Executive Director of Sierra Club, wrote an opinion piece in the San Francisco Chronicle about how the Trump administration has abandoned a long-standing, bipartisan record of supporting NPS and its mission to in
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Conservation groups today challenged Trump’s July 2026 unlawful decimation of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Southern Utah. The groups filed suit in U.S. District Court seeking to reactivate litigation against Trump’s 2017 monument rollbacks and challenge both sets of illegal proclamations together.
LAS VEGAS— A federal panel today halted construction on a massive data center near Boulder City, Nevada, granting environmental groups and local residents a stay in their fight against the hyperscale facility before construction began.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Trump administration has spent over a year quietly pressing the National Park Service to give up land inside Yosemite National Park so a private developer can build a road connecting its own property to park land, according to a new investigation from NOTUS. If approved, the corrupt back-room deal would break with a commitment dating back more than 150 years to protect Yosemite for the public good.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A miles-long sheen reported near an inactive oil and gas platform in Cook Inlet is raising renewed concerns about the risks posed by aging offshore infrastructure as the Trump administration and Congress push additional offshore oil and gas lease sales in the region. Authorities said Tuesday that the sheen was no longer visible and that its source and cause remain under investigation.
EL PASO, TX — Today, Sierra Club along with its Lone Star Chapter and the National Parks Conservation Association filed an amicus brief supporting the Center for Biological Diversity’s lawsuit to stop construction of a border barrier and related infrastructure in and around Big Bend National Park.Both organizations are represented by Earthjustice.
Salt Lake City – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its latest step to eliminate protections under the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, claiming the move is necessary to reduce wildfire risk and expand forest management. Since the Forest Service created the Roadless Rule in 2001, it has protected undeveloped roadless areas across the country.
Today, the Trump administration announced it is repealing the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This measure conserves more than 58 million acres of National Forest lands by preventing road building, hardrock mining, oil and gas and industrial logging, and was one of the most popular rules in U.S. history after an extensive public process to generate more than 1.6 million comments.