April 27, 2017 Negative impact of Obamacare much worse for ranchers, farmers than urban Americans “When a replacement plan would have cost us $3800 for an even worse plan, we had two choices: One, go without insurance, putting our…
April 25, 2017 Trump, Hatch eye rolling back 2 decades of national monument land grabs It’s worth noting that the areas targeted by Obama in his waning days, including Bears Ears, Gold Butte, Nevada (the location of the Cliven…
April 25, 2017 Farmers look forward to relief from crushing Obama-era EPA regulations By 2050, U.S. farmers and ranchers must rise to the challenge of feeding 2 billion more people than we feed today. We are fully…
April 20, 2017 BLM revision plan means states have more say, but enviros hate it Indeed, in directing BLM to “make every effort to restore order, focus, and efficiency to the Federal land planning process,” Zinke clearly takes aim…
April 19, 2017 Corporate enviros terrified that abusive Antiquities Act land grabs might end “Like you, we care deeply for our public lands and have genuine concerns about presidents meddling with millions of acres. We see more losers…
April 6, 2017 Trump orders USDA to open conservation lands to grazing for wildfire-devastated ranchers President Donald Trump directed the department to open emergency grazing in certain lands in the Conservation Reserve Protection program in Texas, Kansas and Oklahoma…
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…
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 28, 2017 Dependence on foreign minerals can be addressed with faster permitting, fewer regulations To address supply chain vulnerability and import dependence, President Trump and Congress should examine ways to speed up permitting of new U.S. mines and…
March 27, 2017 Please, Mr Trump, don’t let wildfire-devastated farmers be ‘forgotten men and women’ American farmers are the backbone of this nation. They work quietly and are too often forgotten by the other 98 percent of Americans. They…
