The National Parks Service (NPS) quietly released a long-delayed report that mentions humanity’s role in climate change, which officials had removed in earlier drafts. The report, published Friday without a press release or any social media activity from the parks department or Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, shows estimates of sea level change for 118 coastal […]
Conservation groups on Thursday sued Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and the Bureau of Land Management for approving new leases to allow fracking on more than 45,000 acres in western Colorado, including within communities and within a half-mile of a K-12 public school, without analyzing or disclosing environmental and public health threats as required by federal […]
New Jersey has passed a law prohibiting offshore oil and gas exploration, development and production in state waters—the nation’s toughest response yet to the Trump administration’s plans to vastly expand offshore drilling in nearly all U.S. coastal waters. Gov. Phil Murphy signed into law on Friday the bipartisan bill called the “Shore Tourism and Ocean […]
The Trump administration is ignoring advice from the bipartisan commission that investigated the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster as officials move to repeal offshore drilling safety regulations adopted in its aftermath. Friday is the eighth anniversary of the explosion that killed 11 oil workers and caused more than 210 million gallons of oil to flow uncontrolled […]
By Sam Schipani The National Park Service announced on Thursday new entrance-fee increases for national parks across the country. The entrance price for most fee-collecting national parks will increase by $5 per vehicle, with additional increases for park-specific annual passes and motorcycles varying across parks, depending on their “size and type.” The price of the […]
Conservation groups are calling on the Trump administration to cancel plans to lease thousands of acres of federal public lands for oil and gas development near western Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park and Blanca Peak without fully analyzing environmental or cultural harms. WildEarth Guardians, the Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Earth, Rocky […]
By Courtney Lindwall Load the camper back up: U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke appears to be backtracking on the steep entrance fee hikes he proposed last October for 17 of the country’s most popular national parks. In a relatively short public comment period of 30 days, the Interior Department received more than […]
In all the media attention gobbled by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Scott Pruitt, it’s important to remember that Trump’s appointed Department of Interior (DOI) leader Ryan Zinke is also extremely dangerous for the environment. Before being chosen to head the DOI, Zinke was a Montana representative with a three percent environmental voting record […]
By Sam Schipani The federal government is moving forward with a plan to halt new mining claims in the Absaroka Mountains north of Yellowstone National Park. The plan would withdraw 30,370 acres of public lands in Montana’s Paradise Valley from new claims for gold, silver and other mineral extraction for a period of 20 years. […]
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