Mission, TX-- Today, the Senate Appropriations Committee passed an appropriations bill that includes $1.6 billion for border walls and increased funding for Border Patrol. If passed through Congress, the appropriations legislation fully funds 65 miles of additional border wall in Rio Grande Valley-- walling off the entire 150-mile valley from their river (except the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge where prohibition on construction is upheld).
Anchorage, AK-- Yesterday, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that the agency will carry out a Congressional rollback of a rule that bans aggressive predator control tactics in national preserves in Alaska, including shooting bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens. The decision will affect over 20 million acres of federal lands and allow dangerous baiting of precious species like the Alaskan blackbear.
73 scientists say #NoGrizHunt.
Tonight is the last public hearing before Wyoming Commission votes on extreme trophy hunt.
Tonight is the last public hearing before Wyoming Commission votes on extreme trophy hunt.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- House Republicans today released the FY2019 farm bill. The bill weakens the SNAP anti-hunger program and includes provisions undermining bedrock environmental safeguards for clean water, wildlife and forests.
WHAT: A Sierra Club webinar featuring a panel of bilingual border issues experts to discuss strategies to build a unified environmental front to protect communities and wildlife on the border.
WHEN: Thursday, April 12, at 1 pm ET (12 CT)
Conservation groups appeal border waiver decision.
Washington, DC-- Ryan Zinke has continued to work tirelessly to show his true self as he reveals his future political ambitions. Last Friday, it was revealed that Zinke has said diversity is not important nor a priority for his department-- clarified by his actions that disproportionately affect Native Americans and women working at the department.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a rush to avoid another government shutdown, members of Congress have proposed an omnibus deal that fortunately falls short of Trump’s outrageous requests to fully fund his wall, but still includes $1.6 billion for border walls along the U.S.- Mexico border. A significant portion of the funding is designated for 33 miles of new barriers that can be built as levee-walls or existing “bollard fence.