“President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is a once-in-a-generation investment that will allow us to restore healthy ecosystems across the country,” saidSecretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. “This is an important step towards building a better America for people and wildlife, for generations to come.”
Projects will be spread across Interior bureaus, including the Bureau of Land Management, which will receive $26 million to fund a broad range of projects. “We all rely on healthy, functioning ecosystems that deliver clean air and clean water, support wildlife, sequester carbon, and are less prone to the effects of catastrophic wildfire. These are wise investments for future generations,” said BLM Director Tracy Stone-Manning. She added, “Putting people to work on restoration efforts on our public lands will be key to help address the effects of a changing climate and long-term drought.”
I think the federal government can make a good argument that our national energy needs have changed, and that renewable energy should be our focus and that therefore we do not need to have a schedule of proposed lease sales.”
—Sara Rollet Gosman, environment & energy law professor at the University of Arkansas, The Hill
A total lunar eclipse will turn the moon red and be visible in most of the U.S. this Sunday night into Monday morning. America’s public lands are ideal places for watching celestial wonders like this Blood Moon! Photo
(featured image: @BLMNational announces project allocations for $26 million received through Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for ecosystem restoration following @Interior‘s allocation of more than $68 million for 125 ecosystem restoration projects http://ow.ly/XpKV50J6OcF.)
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I think the federal government can make a good argument that our national energy needs have changed, and that renewable energy should be our focus and that therefore we do not need to have a schedule of proposed lease sales.”