Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources moved forward Laura Daniel-Davis’ nomination to serve as the U.S. Department of the Interior’s assistant secretary for land and minerals management. Her confirmation will now be voted on by the full Senate.
Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (SENR) will consider several important bills that impact public lands and waters and conservation efforts. Senior Sierra Club policy staff are available to speak about individual bills listed below.
En una victoria para la protección y conservación de la vida silvestre, una corte federal de distrito restauró hoy una amplia variedad de protecciones de la Ley de Especies en Peligro a cientos de especies y su hábitats.
Varios grupos climáticos y de conservación presentaron anoche una demanda contra la reanudación por parte de la administración Biden de los arrendamientos de explotación de petróleo y gas en terrenos públicos, los primeros desde que el Presidente suspendió dichos arrendamientos al poco de asumir su mandato.
Climate and conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Biden administration’s resumption of oil and gas leasing on public lands, the first auction since the president paused leasing shortly after taking office.
The House Appropriations Committee today is taking up the FY2023 Interior spending bill. The bill would provide robust funding increases for endangered, threatened, and imperiled species conservation and outdoor access and equity work.
The Bureau of Land Management will be issuing oil and gas leases on more than 200 square miles of public lands in Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota and Oklahoma starting on June 29, 2022.
Today, the US Forest Service issued a draft of an environmental assessment, recommending a 20-year mineral withdrawal from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. This process will also initiate a 30-day comment period, after which a final environmental assessment will be delivered to the Bureau of Land Management, and then to the desk of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for a decision.
La administración Biden anunció el primer acuerdo de su tipo por el cual el gobierno federal y naciones tribales gestionarán conjuntamente el Monumento Nacional de Bears Ears.
The Biden Administration announced a first-of-its kind agreement with Tribal Nations to co-manage Bears Ears National Monument. The Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, the Hopi Tribe, Navajo Nation, Ute Mountain Ute Tribe, Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, and the Pueblo of Zuni signed a cooperative agreement to strengthen the management and protection of the 1.36 million acre site. Established in 2016 by President Barack Obama, Bears Ears was one of the first national monuments established upon the request of Tribal Nations. In October 2021, President Joe Biden restored the boundaries of Bears Ears, which had been slashed 85% by his predecessor.
Today, Sierra Club will deliver thousands of protests to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) calling for an end to fossil fuel leasing on public lands. This follows the decision by the BLM to resume onshore lease sales in eight states: Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota and Oklahoma.
El Departamento del Interior de la administración Biden anunció anoche que no va a celebrar tres ventas programadas de arrendamientos de perforaciones costeras en el Golfo de México y las costas de Alaska.