October 10, 2017 Native American Energy Act promises to ease tribal poverty This legislation contains important permitting and Judicial review provisions for tribes and Alaska Native Corporations that work to eliminate attacks by outside special interest groups. Overall, this bill is…
October 6, 2017 BLM reverses Obama-era mineral leasing ban on 10 million acres in West “The proposal to withdraw 10 million acres to prevent (only) 10,000 from potential mineral development was a complete overreach.” ~Acting BLM Director, Mike Nedd…
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 16, 2017 Protection of landowner rights key to saving endangered species The statute also burdens property owners through the designation of critical habitat, which further restricts land use. Most alarmingly, the federal agency charged with implementing…
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 2, 2017 How this NOAA agent defended a farmer against overzealous feds in ESA case [paypal_donation_button] The farmer explained that he asked federal biologists how to fix the problem and they told him they could not help him unless…
June 30, 2017 Farmers, ranchers ‘cheer’ cancellation of Obama ‘straitjacket’ WOTUS rule “Farmers and ranchers across this country are cheering,” said Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation…He said the Obama rule was “a…
June 25, 2017 SCOTUS rules landowners have no recourse when government regs undermine property values “Put simply, today’s decision knocks the definition of ‘private property’ loose from its foundation on stable state law rules,” Roberts wrote. The ruling “compromises…
May 26, 2017 Natural Resources head moves to bring more local control to land, resource policies “Our experience has been that the BLM [Bureau of Land Management] planners hold very few public meetings where information is given, but not exchanged,”…
May 25, 2017 Duarte, Robertson, the Hammonds: Trump must stop federal prosecution of property owners “The Corps and EPA are not trying to micromanage farmers, they are trying to stop farmers from farming their fields. They’re trying to turn…
