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“The Bureau of Land Management may stop studying how its long-term blueprints for millions of acres of public lands would affect the environment, according to a document shared with Bloomberg Environment. Land use plans are updated every two decades or more, and govern the management ...

“It’s a natural fit for an administration as chaotic and corrupt as President Donald Trump’s that William Perry Pendley, who loathes America’s public lands, was picked last September, and reappointed in January, to manage them. The Bureau of Land Management, which Pendley now ...

“There’s always something going on with the waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule. Last September, we wrote about how the 1986/1988 WOTUS rule would replace the 2015 Obama rule until the Trump administration finalized its new rule. Well, the final rule was just announced by the ...

“Obama-era clean water protections will soon be stripped and replaced. The Trump administration will finalize its replacement of the Waters of the United States rule by ‘rolling back protections for some wetlands and streams that run intermittently or temporarily underground,&# ...

“Law enforcement rangers working for the U.S. Bureau of Land Management — working at much beloved places like Basin and Range National Monument — have very tough jobs. They are responsible for patrolling one of every 10 acres in the U.S. Each one of the roughly 200 rangers is now ...

“With the Environmental Protection Agency’s own data showing that nearly half of our rivers and streams and a third of our wetlands are in “poor biological condition,” and with millions of Americans exposed to unsafe chemicals in water systems, this is a bad time to make a ...