STATEMENT on President Trump’s order to harm the San Francisco Bay Delta

DENVER—The Center for Western Priorities today released an updated leasing and drilling dashboard that provides an at-a-glance look at data related to oil and gas leasing and production on public lands under the Biden administration. Data included in the dashboard show that, while the Interior Department has yet to initiate its promised rulemaking to reform the broken federal oil […]

The Center for Western Priorities released a new report, “Winning the West: Election 2022,” detailing how public lands were a winning issue in the 2022 election and how pro-conservation positions often gave candidates a competitive edge in close races.  According to the report, candidates like new Congressman Gabe Vasquez in New Mexico highlighted their conservation […]

An analysis of the Bureau of Land Management website conducted by the Center for Western Priorities finds that 17 of the 30 RACs reinstated by the Trump administration have not met.

Since 1964, the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) has helped protect critical landscapes within our national parks and increase recreational access to public lands across the country. Congress permanently renewed this key program in a sweeping bipartisan public lands bill this year, but did not provide any promise of funding‚ leaving the program subject to the whims of Congress each year. Now that LWCF will be around for the foreseeable future, what’s next for America’s most important parks program?

After stocking his department with oil and gas lobbyists, Zinke goes full speed ahead on drilling and mining Last week, as most Americans celebrated Thanksgiving, the Trump administration quietly released two stunning reports detailing the current and forecasted impacts of climate change to the United States. The comprehensive studies concluded that the United States is […]