WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Trump administration moved to gut protections for nearly 60 million acres of national forests across the country.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, the Department of the Interior released a draft plan that would open up the largest contiguous piece of public lands in the country to oil and gas drilling. The draft plan would open up 82 percent of the Western Arctic…
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Donald Trump issued an executive order that adds more burden and uncertainty to federal land management agencies while laying groundwork for further reduction of protections for forests.
SEATTLE – President Trump signed a Presidential Memorandum today to unilaterally and abruptly withdraw the federal government’s support for the Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement, a comprehensive partnership to restore the basin’s imperiled…
JUNEAU, Alaska — Senate Republicans are supercharging an effort to sell huge swaths of public lands to private developers in Alaska to pay for extending Donald Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires.