As climate change inflicts mounting costs and rising dangers on people across the country, selling off our public lands and waters to fossil fuel companies at steep discounts serves neither present nor future generations. Instead, it locks both into the very fuels that are driving the climate crisis.
Pausing the sale of new federal oil and gas leases gives us a chance to reconsider and fix our broken system of leasing on public lands and federal waters.
As part of his January 27 Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis, President Biden directed the Interior Department to outline steps to achieve the President’s commitment to conserve at least 30% of our lands, waters and oceans by the…
The Trump administration unveiled a rule that will make it easier to drill for oil and gas in national forests. At a time when communities are suffering from dirty air and the dangers of a warming planet, we cannot afford…
The $4.4 trillion proposal slashes environmental and health protections, ignores climate change, and sacrifices our public lands and waters to fossil fuel companies—all while making the national debt soar.
In a gift to the wealthiest Americans—and at the expense of our environment—President Trump is trying to push his reckless tax scam through before Christmas.
Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke often invokes the image of a modern day Teddy Roosevelt, but TR would be appalled by the polluter-driven, anti-conservation agenda Zinke is dictating.
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is so spectacular that it’s alternately referred to as America’s Serengeti—the Crown Jewel of the National Wildlife Refuge System—and the Sacred Place Where Life Begins.
