The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of America's last truly wild places and must be preserved. | Photo by Loren Blackford
Public lands and waters should never be threatened by oil and gas drilling. We work to protect these special places from legislative assaults and federal regulatory rollbacks that threaten to open them up to exploitation by the fossil fuel industry.
Oakland, CA— Today, Sierra Magazine released its third episode of The Overstory, a new podcast that offers the stories of changemakers, communicators, and people who see the world in a different light and from a new angle. The eight-minute features are first-hand, emotional accounts of our nation’s most urgent environmental issues. To listen to the first episodes of Overstory, click here. Select producers and story subjects available for interview.
The Department of the Interior has announced plans to review the management of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska with the goal of opening up more land to oil and gas drilling and pipelines.
The Department of the Interior has announced plans to review the management of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska with the goal of opening up more land to oil and gas drilling and pipelines.
Today, new revelations from the Washington Post revealed that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with a billionaire developer who has business before the government at the request of his college friend and former football teammate, Ed Hagerty. Zinke is currently the subject of dozens of scandals.
Las Vegas, Nevada (October 18, 2018) - Conservation organizations are outraged by the US Air Force’s lack of respect to the public interest with the release of its final Environmental Impact Statement on a plan to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The military already controls 2.9 million acres in Nevada with no public access allowed, and this proposal would shut the public out of another 300,000 acres.
Las Vegas, Nevada (October 18, 2018) - Conservation organizations are outraged by the US Air Force’s lack of respect to the public interest with the release of its final Environmental Impact Statement on a plan to expand its Nevada Test and Training Range into the Desert National Wildlife Refuge. The military already controls 2.9 million acres in Nevada with no public access allowed, and this proposal would shut the public out of another 300,000 acres.
Zinke Keeps Giving Government Contracts to Whitefish Energy, Turns His Back on a Veteran, And His Super PAC Mocks Sexual Assault Survivors, All While Angling for a New Job
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee today advanced a host of public lands legislation including, Restore Our Parks, Land and Water Conservation Fund, Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Conservation Act, Every Kid Outdoors Act and the Yellowstone Gateway Protection Act.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Tonight will kick off the first of three public meetings on a proposed management plan for Bears Ears National Monument. The plan leaves most of Bears Ears without protections and comes despite current legal challenges to the Trump administration’s illegal actions to shrink the monuments.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear the mining industry’s challenge to the 20-year ban on new uranium mining near the Grand Canyon.