June 23, 2017 Senate inaction on illegal BLM ‘methane rule’ endangers jobs, affordable energy Americans will have to pay a hefty price for this needless rule. One analysis predicts it could cost over $1.2 billion a year. Small…
June 22, 2017 Forest Service uses double-standard in non-permitted ‘Rainbow Family’ Malheur gathering He said the Forest Service would punish ranchers if they ignored permit requirements and tapped a spring for drinking water like the Rainbow Family…
June 22, 2017 Colorado enviros stoke cancer fears over Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge development At the very least the lawsuit, if successful, would push back public access for months and possibly years beyond the planned opening in the…
June 21, 2017 Hopi, Navajo tribes want Trump to rescue Arizona coal mine, power station and related jobs The federal government could be the last, best hope to save the Navajo Generating Station, a coal-fired facility on Navajo Nation land near the…
June 21, 2017 Ranchers sue USDA to reverse Obama-era policy that ended ‘country of origin’ labeling The lawsuit asks the court to vacate USDA’s current regulations, which allow corporations that import beef and pork and other products into the United…
June 20, 2017 Undue Green Influence: This Utah enviro group works against local interests with public dollars Grand Staircase-Escalante Partners has taken a position opposite that of the majority of working citizens who live in Kane and Garfield counties, where the…
June 20, 2017 Experts rebut study claiming United States could run on 100% ‘renewable’ energy David Victor, an energy policy expert at University of California-San Diego and PNAS co-author, said Jacobson’s study sets “wildly unrealistic expectations” that could cause…
June 19, 2017 Trump team works to restore agricultural sectors, revitalize rural America “While much of the country has recovered from the recent recession, large areas of rural America have not fared as well. Nationally, 85 percent…
June 19, 2017 Zinke moves to drain the swamp at Interior Department Zinke’s departmental shake up is not just your typical, run-of-the-mill reorganization that happens each time a new administration takes power. Zinke took over a…
June 18, 2017 ‘Sagebrush Rebellion’ attorney, Karen Budd-Falen, in running to head up BLM Budd-Falen is well-known in the West for her work representing ranchers and is seen by some observers as a hero of the Sagebrush Rebellion,…
