COMMENTARY | Trillion Dollar Return on Public Lands – Harvesting Hot Air
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Jeff Ruch | July 2, 2025
The Burgum-backed plans for Department of Interior lands promote a frenzy of extraction, overuse, and hasty disposal ...
COMMENTARY | EPA’s Disgraceful Forever Chemicals Retreat
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Kyla Bennett | May 22, 2025
EPA’s retreat on PFAS not only betrays the agency’s mission but makes a mockery of the Trump Administration’s self-proclaimed pledge to Make America Healthy Again ...
COMMENTARY | Rebalancing Checks and Balances: How to Curb Executive Abuse
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Jeff Ruch | April 25, 2025
President Trump has conclusively demonstrated that the executive branch cannot be trusted to police itself in following the law ...
COMMENTARY | National Parks or Jurassic Parks? Conservation Trump Style
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Jeff Ruch | April 22, 2025
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum suggests that technology can replace the role of habitat and intact ecosystems in the survival of wildlife ...
COMMENTARY | Trump and the IGs – From Watchdogs to Lapdogs
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Jeff Ruch | March 25, 2025
The role of the Inspector General requires political independence to function properly. That independence is now irretrievably lost ...