DEMANDING A BALANCED APPROACH: COLORADO FRONT RANGE

The big budget bill offers up hundreds of millions of acres of public land for drilling, logging, and mining and strips funding from the National Park Service and BLM The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” is anything but beautiful for public lands. Lawmakers in Congress hid incredibly destructive and unpopular favors to the coal, oil and […]

This is an automatically generated transcript. Please excuse spelling and grammar errors. Aaron: Welcome to The Landscape, your show about America’s parks and public lands. I’m Aaron Weiss with the Center for Western Priorities in Denver. Kate: And I’m Kate Groetzinger in Salt Lake City. Today on the pod, we’re taking a break from Trump […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 23, 2019 Winning the West: Election 2018 analyzes impact of public lands positions on 20 races DENVER—The Center for Western Priorities released its Winning the West: Election 2018 report, revealing the growing trend of winning candidates highlighting their support for public lands and outdoor issues in order to connect with Mountain West voters in […]

If oil spills in the forest, and nobody is there to see it, does it still cause damage? The answer of course is yes, and a new audit by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reveals that problems with oil and gas oversight by the U.S. Forest Service puts our […]

Taxpayers for Common Sense (TCS), a non-partisan, budget watchdog group, released a study yesterday examining the federal government’s long history of wasting taxpayer money on oil shale speculation.