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.
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.
PORTLAND, Ore. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources advanced Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management.
By a party-line vote of 11-9, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources moved Pearce’s nomination to a vote by the full Senate. Oregon’s Senator Ron Wyden, a committee member, voted against the nomination.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources advanced Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management.
By a party line vote of 11-9, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources moved Pearce’s nomination to a vote by the full Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressional Republicans began the process of overturning the management plan for Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Utah.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources held a confirmation hearing on Donald Trump’s nomination of Steve Pearce to run the Bureau of Land Management.
During the hearing, Pearce was peppered with questions about his previous support for selling off vast swaths of federal public lands to private interests and opposition to national monuments. BLM manages approximately 245 million acres of public surface land and an additional 700 million acres of subsurface mineral rights.
DENVER - The U.S. Senate hearing for Steve Pearce, nominee for Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is triggering fierce push back from conservation and environmental groups this week.
Proposed changes at National Monument in Mississippi the latest in a string of censorship actions ordered by the Trump Administration
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club is highlighting the transparency generated by the organization’s Environmental Law Program in the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considered 15 bills largely focusing on conservation, public lands, and wildfire prevention.
Among the bills considered during the markup session, the committee's first legislative markup since September, were the following:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – House Republicans have approved resolutions intended to undermine the protection of millions of acres of public lands in Alaska and overturning guardrails on coal leasing in Wyoming.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A broad cross-section of Americans voiced their support for protecting public lands and preserving the Public Lands Rule as the Trump administration's 60-day public comment period to rescind the rule closed today.