“Western producers are able to ramp up production to meet export demands…”

This is an automatically generated transcript. Please excuse spelling and grammar errors. Aaron: This is The Landscape, your show about America’s parks and public lands. I’m Aaron Weiss with the Center for Western Priorities coming to you up in the mountains in Evergreen, Colorado today. Kate: And I’m Kate Groetzinger in Salt Lake City. Today […]

Opposition is growing to a proposal from New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to use state funding to create a reserve of fracking wastewater. First announced last December, the plan calls for the state to purchase treated wastewater that could then be available to businesses and industries that can use brackish water. New Mexico’s Environment Department Secretary James […]

Utah Congressman Rob Bishop, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, has made no secrets about his disdain for America’s foundational conservation laws. On the Endangered Species Act: “I would be happy to invalidate [it].” On the Antiquities Act: “It is the most evil act ever invented.” On the Land and Water Conservation Fund: it […]

Explore newly-released data that reveals how the LWCF protects land from development inside our national parks.

New spill tracker created by the Center for Western Priorities uses state data to show how spills from oil and gas drilling put Colorado’s water at risk.