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Trump hands Burgum a new way to bypass public lands protections
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order making changes to how presidential authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA) is delegated. Previously, the president delegated a variety of authorities under the DPA to the Secretary of Energy. Trump’s executive order amends the delegation of some authorities to include both the Secretary of […]
Read MoreDOGE memoir skips the part where children died and taxpayers got ripped off
DOGE’s record is permanently written in scars across American landscapes and etched on the headstones of hundreds of thousands of children.
Read MoreForest Service plan would cut the public out of Maroon Bells management decision
A legal shortcut, rewritten last year, is about to decide who runs one of Colorado’s most visited landscapes Update: On Friday, September 18, the U.S. Forest Service announced that it will conduct a 15-day comment period before signing off on a special use permit for Pitkin County to manage operations at the Maroon Bells Scenic […]
Read MoreThe Forest Service’s own review finds repealing the Roadless Rule could increase wildfire risk and harm communities
The Trump administration wants you to believe repealing the 2001 Roadless Rule is about wildfire safety and local control. Its own environmental review says otherwise. On August 19, the U.S. Forest Service released a 333-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) alongside a proposed rule to strip road-building and logging protections from 44.7 million acres of national forest, nearly the size of […]
Read MoreData Center Doug wants to “manufacture intelligence” on your public lands
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has spent the past 18 months arguing for data centers. Now he’s putting them on public lands Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has touted his support for data centers since the day he took office. At a Breitbart policy event in March 2025, he said, “We take electricity and an AI data center. We […]
Read MoreTrump’s “energy dominance” agenda is only helping oil and gas companies
The oil industry just posted some of its best profits in years while Americans pay more at the pump President Donald Trump promised to “cut your energy prices in half” within his first year in office using his “energy dominance” agenda. Instead, energy dominance has produced record profits for oil companies and higher gas prices […]
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