Bail Out the American Public, Not Big Oil
The Interior Department should reject calls to grant royalty relief and other favors to the oil and gas industry in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Such a b...
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Public Lands’ Fossil Fuels & Climate Change
Fossil fuel production has been an unmitigated environmental disaster for our public lands and waters. Coal mining and oil and gas drilling have irreparably des...
Zinke Plans to Divide Monument for Industry and Local Allies
Ryan Zinke’s Interior Department released documents yesterday indicating its intention to sell to private interests 1,600 acres of land previously and rightfu...
Don’t Let Offshore Drilling SpOIL Coastal National Parks
Thanks to the Trump Administration’s proposed offshore drilling plan, 68 coastal National Parks abutting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and around Alaska and...
Interior’s Budget Chooses Fossil Fuels Over Everything Else
Zinke’s budget is another practice in cognitive dissonance. ...
Don't Mine What's Mine: Boundary Waters Threatened Again
The Boundary Waters is a special wild place. An interconnected system of lakes, rivers, smaller tributaries, and wetlands, spanning over a million acres along t...