April 4, 2017 Trump’s DOI Secretary ends coal moratorium, opens way for oil and gas renaissance “Secretarial Order 3348 overturns the 2016 moratorium on all new coal leases on federal land and ends the programmatic environmental impacts statement that was…
April 3, 2017 Extreme greens lawsuits delay BLM payment of $69.9 million to New Mexico BLM spokeswoman Donna Hummel said two environmental groups — Wild Earth Guardians and the Center for Biological Diversity — formally protested all parcels in the…
April 3, 2017 U.N.-linked conservation ‘connectivity’ projects gobbling up Idaho, Northwest Each of these organizations are connected to UN NGOs such as the Nature Conservancy , Wilderness Society, and Wildlife Conservation Society. Don’t be fooled…
April 2, 2017 Fossil Fuels Ascending: BLM Acting Director puts renewables on back burner President Trump this week ordered BLM to “expeditiously” rescind its hydraulic fracturing regulations and review its methane venting and flaring rule. Zinke also ended…
April 1, 2017 Will USDA lift grazing restrictions on lush Conservation Reserve lands to help Kansas ranchers? At issue is the cattle that survived the wildfires but lost their pastures. Ranchers and others say some of the grass on CRP land…
March 31, 2017 Oregon Standoff: Feds arrest blogger who revealed identities of FBI infiltrators The presence of nine informants on the eastern Oregon refuge during the 41-day occupation last winter as well as six other informants who worked…
March 30, 2017 From the D.C. swamp to the West: Will Trump relocate federal land agencies? “[Zinke’s] view is that we have too many people working in Interior in Washington, D.C., when the work that needs to be done is…
March 30, 2017 Kansas Natural Resources Coalition: Property rights powerhouse from the Heartland Although KNRC’s roots are in Kansas–the middle of America both literally and figuratively–they hope to have impact far beyond the geographical Heartland. Having recently expanded their…
March 29, 2017 Shawna Cox: What America needs to know about the Bunkerville trial We just want to tell the truth, so why can’t the media go into court and show the world what really goes on in…
March 28, 2017 Property rights hang in the balance in Wisconsin riverfront parcels taking case …when the Murr children approached St. Croix County in 2004 to sell the vacant lot to finance improvements at their parents’ cabin, they were…
