As part of promised swift action on the climate, today the Biden Administration is expected to announce it will pause new oil and gas leasing on public lands and waters, review existing leases and permits, and increase offshore wind renewable energy development. Taken together with the existing 60-day pause on fossil fuel development, which includes an examination of the federal coal leasing program, the order makes significant progress in addressing climate emissions from public lands.
El Presidente Biden firmó ayer una orden ejecutiva que rescinde la declaración de emergencia nacional de Donald Trump que usó para imponer un muro fronterizo con fondos militares.
En su primer día oficial, la administración Biden emitió una orden ejecutiva para anular varios debilitamientos de salvaguardas ambientales y de salud pública del gobierno previo.
Biden will consider restoring protections for Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments, Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine Monument
The Trump administration is expected to release today a final proposal to transfer ownership of Oak Flat, a sacred land to a dozen Indigenous Tribes, to a mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site in Australia. The move comes just days before Trump leaves office and comes despite years of opposition from Apache-Stronghold, the San Carlos Apache Tribe, and other Tribal entities, religious leaders, locals, and environmental groups.
Today, the Trump administration’s Bureau of Land Management released a proposal to undermine conservation protections in the California Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP). The proposed rollback will make the land more accessible to mining and development interests, and its reopening is widely objected to by conservation and community groups, including California Energy Commissioner Douglas. The original management plan was a result of 8 years of negotiations by over 50 stakeholders that included dozens of public meetings and thousands of comments; it carefully balances conservation, recreation, and renewable energy development on more than 10.5 million acres of California Desert public lands.
Conservation groups finalized an agreement with the Bureau of Land Management today that blocks drilling on more than 45,000 acres of oil and gas leases until officials revise land-management plans governing approximately 2 million acres of public lands in western Colorado.
En medio de la primera extinción masiva causada por la actividad humana en la que más de 1 millón de especies están en peligro de desaparecer para siempre, la administración Trump ha finalizado un regulación que desmantela protecciones cruciales de la Ley del Tratado de Aves Migratorias.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) finalized a rule change that alters the process for designating critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act. This will weaken the ability to designate critical habitat for at-risk species and prioritize economics over science. The rule gives increased weight in decision making to developers to prioritize oil and gas development and other industries over safeguarding and restoring habitat for endangered species.
ALBUQUERQUE, NM. -- President-elect Biden today nominated Rep. Deb Haaland to serve as Secretary of the Interior. The Department of the Interior manages the country’s national parks and approximately 450 million acres of public lands, oversees wildlife and other conservation efforts, and upholds Federal trust responsibilities to Indigenous communities.
President-elect Biden today nominated Rep. Deb Haaland to serve as Secretary of the Interior. The Department of the Interior manages the country’s national parks and approximately 450 million acres of public lands, oversees wildlife and other conservation efforts, and upholds Federal trust responsibilities to Indigenous communities.
The Trump administration tomorrow is expected to finalize a rule to circumvent establishing habitat protections for endangered and threatened species. The rule follows a string of other efforts and rollbacks to weaken the Endangered Species Act under the Trump administration.