With this amendment, Mike Lee is telling President Trump and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that even our national parks can be sold…
Author: Aaron Weiss
Aaron Weiss is Media Director for the Center for Western Priorities.
OPINION: One Month Into Shutdown, White House Has Approved More Than 600 Drilling Permits
Burgum’s email did not acknowledge his attempt to fire thousands of Interior department employees during the shutdown, which was temporarily blocked by a federal judge…
Interior Department Planning to Eviscerate USGS, Other Public Lands Agencies
“USGS research underpins everything from American energy to insurance to transportation….”
OPINION: History Repeating as Federal Shutdown Looms?
“We started having damage and we started having human waste issues. Everything that we told them would happen started happening…”
OPINION: Colorado Conservation Leaders Join Campaign to ‘Keep Parks Public’
Event puts spotlight on Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and anti-park members of Congress…
OPINION: U.S. Senate Promoting Trophy Homes on Public Lands?
“Senator Mike Lee should be ashamed of himself for using the housing affordability crisis as an excuse to sell public lands off to private developers…”
New Dashboard Will Track Oil & Gas Leasing
Currently, House Republicans are looking to advance their agenda of offering up the vast majority of our national public lands to oil and gas corporations…
OPINION: U.S. House Committee Sells Out, Votes to Sell Off Public Lands
The American people love their public lands and want to see them protected, not sold off to the highest bidder…
OPINION: Trump Administration Considers Sale of Public Lands for Housing Developments
Jon Raby, the acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, said the administration is looking at all national public lands…
OPINION: The Value of National Monuments
National monuments are good for economic development and help drive the West’s rapidly growing recreation economy…
OPINION: The Future of American Oil & Gas Production
“Oil and gas production hit an all-time high under President Biden…”
President Biden Creates Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument
“In the final weeks of his administration, President Biden has the opportunity to leave a legacy as one of the great conservation presidents…”
OPINION: Using Public Lands for Housing, Appropriately
The affordable housing development planned under this week’s announcement would require 80 percent of the units be sold to first-time homebuyers…
Ad Campaign Urges President Biden to Continue Protecting Public Lands
74 percent of Western voters say doing more to protect and conserve public lands, parks, wildlife, and national monuments would make them view the administration more favorably…
Key Numbers in the Effort to Protect Public Lands
President Biden has used his congressionally-granted power to designate five new national monuments so far…
OPINION: Rep. Boebert Seeking to Leave Taxpayers with Oil & Gas Cleanup
The House Natural Resources Committee held a subcommittee hearing yesterday on a draft bill sponsored by Colorado Representative Lauren Boebert…
New Report Outlines Tools to Protect America’s Public Lands
New report explores breadth of federal tools for protecting land, water, and biodiversity on America’s public lands…
Public Comments Overwhelmingly Support BLM Oil and Gas Rule
With the comment period closed, the BLM will now review and respond to technical comments on the proposed rule…
New Ad Campaign Urges Designation of More National Monuments
“Our latest ad sends a clear message … for inspiring Westerners with real progress…”