Patagonia donates $1 million to Georgia voting rights groups
Ted “Cancun” Cruz is going to have to burn all his Patagonia gear. Patagonia announced on Monday that it would donate $1 million to multiple voting rights …
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Conservation victory against Henry’s Fork logging project
Last December the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, and Yellowstone to Uintas Connection took the Trump administration’s Forest Service to federal court …
Interior to push drilling in Florida waters after November election
If Trump wins re-election, you can kiss environmental protection goodbye. The Trump administration is preparing to open the door to oil and gas drilling off …
Trump signs lands bill but budget rejects money for Land and Water Conservation Fund
While everyone was doing the happy dance after President Trump signed a major public lands bill his 2020 budget proposal released the day prior removed …
How Trump Plans To Gut NEPA
When President Richard Nixon signed the National Environmental Policy Act into law in 1970, he said it would help “America pays its debt to the past by …
The fox guarding the hen house
Yesterday Alaska Governor-elect Mike Dunleavy named four new commissioners and major staffers. His choice for Commissioner of Environmental Conservation worked as the head of public …
Six environmental ballot measures attract massive out-of-state and industry cash
Voters in six Western states—Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Montana, Nevada, and Washington—will head to the polls Nov. 6 with the chance to decide on hotly contested, …
EPA drafting rule to curb its veto power
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is crafting a regulation dramatically curtailing the agency’s ability to retroactively veto water permission permits. The agency “is planning to …
The Coming Green Wave
A Green Wave is coming this November, the pent-up force of the most overlooked constituency in America. These independents, Teddy Roosevelt Republicans and Democrats on …
Companies take first steps to drill in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
There are some places that need to be permanently protected and off-limits to resource extraction. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of those places. …