September 8, 2017 House Resources Committee hears bills furthering state control of energy development The states examined in this study earn an average of $14.51 for every dollar spent on state trust land management. The U.S. Forest Service…
September 4, 2017 Zinke forms Royalty Policy Committee to steer energy development on federal lands …the RPC is comprised of tribal leaders, representatives from the energy industry, experts in engineering and energy extraction, elected and appointed leaders from energy-rich…
August 22, 2017 Coal mines helped improve West Virginia water supplies The Tribune reported the “crash of the coal mining industry in southern West Virginia has left hundreds of residents in charge of their own…
August 9, 2017 Western leaders applaud Interior’s rollback of Obama-era methane rule [paypal_donation_button] “[T]he BLM believes that the 2015 final rule unnecessarily burdens industry with compliance costs and information requirements that are duplicative of regulatory programs…
August 8, 2017 House legislation streamlines permit process for improvements on public lands [paypal_donation_button] …the bill includes provisions that would authorize the Department of the Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), to enter into cooperative…
August 6, 2017 Scandalous EPA coverup of Gold King Mine spill ‘cannot be ignored’ [paypal_donation_button] Thanks to photos taken the day before and the day of the disaster, we now know the workers had excavated the entire plug…
August 1, 2017 Western Caucus asks Trump to remove ‘senseless’ Obama-era mining requirements [paypal_donation_button] “The Obama CERCLA rule is a solution in search of a problem. Like many of the previous administration’s senseless regulations, this misguided proposal…
July 26, 2017 Fake News River: EPA accounts of Gold King Mine spill deceptive, misleading The line that the EPA crew never intended to breach the natural plug (blockage) is flatly contradicted by a recently released Interior Department email…
July 16, 2017 Forest Service ‘stall tactics’ threaten Minnesota mining jobs, education funding The stall tactics and fear-mongering amount to a direct attack on mining in Minnesota and the good people of the Iron Range. The federal…
July 12, 2017 Jordan Cove natural gas project will help environment, increase geopolitical stability If you truly care about the environment, then supporting the export of natural gas to Asia, India and other Eastern European countries makes sense. …
