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The National Park Service, as part of a directive by the Trump administration in 2019, allows e-bikes on all trails in its 423 national parks where traditional bikes are allowed. This is being challenged in a lawsuit by the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and a coalition ...

Low fees are only one of the places the feds have dropped the ball on grazing. The data shows that the BLM fails to meet its own standards for rangeland health. Agency-managed national monuments — including Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah and Canyon ...

The results of the studyconducted in September by a third-party contractor — in collaboration with NPS senior paleontologist Vincent Santucci, two U.S. Geological Survey geologists and the monument’s former acting superintendent — found “deposits deemed to have a high ...

For the fifth straight year, ranchers will pay the lowest allowable amount for grazing livestock on federal land in the West. The Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility recently criticized the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service for ...

Experts speculated the EPA may not be testing for dioxins because the process is expensive and difficult. A cleanup would also be costly, but the agency has said Norfolk Southern will be forced to pay. Meanwhile, the EPA and state regulators have a history of “false all clears” that ...

Nowak, now a University of Georgia professor, adds that transparency among government scientists is especially important because their salaries are paid for with taxpayer dollars. He argues that such a policy has no discernible upside but many significant downsides. He’s not alone. ...