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House investigation raises possibility of criminal activity at Freedom 250
4+ hour, 37+ min ago (133+ words) The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from'Executive Director Aaron Weiss: Trump delivers rambling remarks at Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening in North Dakota Teddy Roosevelt ended the Gilded Age. Trump is bringing it back "It's completely inappropriate…...
Trump delivers rambling remarks at Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opening in North Dakota
19+ hour, 34+ min ago (400+ words) The Center for Western Priorities released the following statement from'Executive Director Aaron Weiss: "President Trump should have'heeded Teddy Roosevelt's advice before delivering that rambling mess of a speech: "There are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always…...
The Secretary of the Interior has a Yellowstone Club problem
22+ hour, 37+ min ago (372+ words) Long before Doug Burgum became the man in charge of 500 million acres of America's public lands as Interior secretary, he was doing real estate deals inside an ultra-exclusive private resort built on former public land. The Yellowstone Club is located…...
Conservation advocates say Trump, Burgum are undoing Teddy Roosevelt's legacy
1+ day, 13+ min ago (557+ words) President Donald'Trump and Interior secretary Doug Burgum are visiting Medora, North Dakota today for the dedication of the'Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. Valerie Naylor, a former superintendent of Theodore Roosevelt National Park also joined the call and pointed out that during…...
Teddy Roosevelt ended the Gilded Age. Trump is bringing it back
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (415+ words) The Trump administration is actively working to reverse that shift by implementing policies that put industry back in the driver's seat on public lands, gutting the agencies Roosevelt built, and turning America's 250th anniversary into a vehicle for partisanship and self-promotion....
New analysis finds the Lincoln Reflecting Pool accounts for nearly the entire spike in National Park Service "urgent" no-bid contracts
5+ day, 23+ hour ago (446+ words) Setting the Reflecting Pool aside, the Park Service obligated about $4. 8 million through urgent contracts this term, slightly elevated from $2. 5 million under President Biden and $1. 4 million in Trump's first term over the same 522-day window. The New York Times'viewed government documents'that…...
The biggest threat to public lands you've never heard of
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (326+ words) Aerial view of the Thacker Pass lithium mine, U. S. Geological Survey Loans made under DPA authority normally have to meet a set of specific conditions. The DPA Modernization Act would let some of those conditions be waived once a national emergency…...
Congress opened Pandora's Box on public lands. Here comes the chaos
6+ day, 22+ hour ago (177+ words) Last year, we warnedmembers of Congress that weaponizing the Congressional Review Act against public land management plans would create chaos. Theydid it anyway, and now a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Managementis proving our point. The implications of this…...
A closer look at the Trump admin's proposed oil and gas rule
1+ week, 1+ day ago (399+ words) More Than Just Parks The proposed radical budget cuts, relocating the agency headquarters, the staff cuts'it's all part of a package of dismantling the agency and it results in less access to national forest, less capability to address wildfire risk…...
Senate committee approves bill to fund parks
2+ week, 37+ min ago (503+ words) The Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on Wednesday advanced'S. 1547, the America the Beautiful Act. The bill was unanimously reported out of committee by a bipartisan voice vote and now advances to the full Senate. If passed by both…...