Trump’s Insidious War on Climate and Science
From: Times Free Press “George Luber is a national award winner for his work on climate change and health questions. He also is an internationally recognized epidemiologist, and until last year he headed the climate and health program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
Whistleblower: BLM Ignores IIlegal Grazing After Bundy Fiasco
From: E&E News “Hoover alleges that BLM’s decision to fire him was “improper retaliation” for an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint he filed last year and for “disclosing illegal grazing and other activities by one of its permittees, who was ...
Interior Department border deployments are mired in secrecy
From: High Country News “On May 15, it was reported by The Hill that 47 Interior Department officers were currently assigned to the border — more than twice the previous number. This leaves public-lands advocates worried about the effects of their absence on the lands these ...
No Word From Feds on Tampa Sewage Spat
From: Tampa Bay Times “Jerry Phillips, the attorney who prepared the complaint for the environmental group, said the group hasn’t given up, but it hasn’t heard a peep from the federal government. That’s not unusual since President Donald Trump took office, Phillips said. ...
A Steal of a Deal: How Ranchers Take Advantage of Public Lands
From: The Revelator “BLM’s own records reveal that much of the sagebrush West is in severely degraded condition due to excessive commercial livestock grazing,” Kirsten Stade, advocacy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said in a press release when the ...
Letter to the Editor: A Response to Chris Stewart’s and Mike Lee’s Letter on Wild Horses
From: St. George News “As a Utah constituent located in Utah’s 2nd Congressional District, I will not – nor will I ever – consider Chris Stewart the “wild horse guy.” I would, however, consider him so deep in the pocket of the USDA, he wouldn’t even be able to tell the ...
