Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser

In 2019, the Colorado legislature overhauled how the state regulates oil and gas development, including requiring an analysis of the cumulative impacts of oil and gas development on communities and wildlife. But a new draft rule implementing the cumulative impacts provision has been weakened after pushback from the oil and gas industry, the Colorado Sun reports. An […]

Department of the Interior officials attended a community meeting Friday to gather feedback on the proposal to designate Chuckwalla National Monument, signaling that the administration is interested in moving forward with a monument designation. Attendees included BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning and Acting Deputy Interior Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis. An estimated 700 people attended the meeting, and […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 20, 2018 Interior Department sells oil leases next to three national monuments in Utah DENVER—Today, the Bureau of Land Management sold oil and gas leases covering 51,400 acres of public lands in southeastern Utah, including parcels adjacent to Canyons of the Ancients National Monument and in close proximity to Bears Ears […]

A conversation with Luis Benitez, director of the Colorado Outdoor Recreation Industry Office. Links mentioned in the show: Headwaters Economics, Federal Lands in the West: Liability or Asset? The history of “This Land is Your Land“

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 DENVER—The Associated Press reported today that the Western Conference of Attorneys General has issued an analysis rejecting claims made by leading opponents of U.S. public lands that the U.S. government has no right to hold national forests, wildlife refuges, national monuments, and other public lands in trust for all […]