The proposed route and its impacts on the national monument, as well as undeveloped desert lands across seven counties, is part of an ongoing debate over green energy and how the infrastructure needed to get that electricity to the power grid will forever change previously untouched places ...

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“In desert areas, off-road vehicles can be quite destructive,” said Jeff Ruch, director of the Pacific Regional Office of Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility. “They rip up whatever vegetation is there and make the land uninhabitable for wildlife.” Ruch called the ...

EPA Caves in Colorado Suit to Block Pollution Transparency ...

Join the hundreds of PEER supporters who are demanding that BLM take action to restore and protect the health of our western lands ...