Commentary

Western Lands and Rocky Mountain Advocate

Chandra, a Colorado native, serves as the Director of Rocky Mountain PEER. Formerly a staff attorney with Defenders of Wildlife specializing in endangered species and public lands issues, she has also worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and, under a legal fellowship, worked on a Superfund site with the Department of Energy. “I view my job as helping the region’s public service professionals do their jobs of protecting the diverse and abundant natural resources of the Rockies,” states Rosenthal. Chandra earned her law degree in 1993 at the Lewis and Clark Northwestern School of Law, where she focused her studies on environmental law.

Treasured heritage at risk: The Old Spanish Trail

by Chandra Rosenthal | July 26, 2024
Despite the Old Spanish Trail's historical significance, BLM's controversial decision threatens to mar it with the blight of oil and gas development ...

BLM Unclear on Transparency

by Chandra Rosenthal | July 24, 2024
According to the latest Interior Department quarterly report on its backlog of unanswered FOIA requests, BLM leads as its least responsive agency ...

Science or Scam – NOAA Fisheries Gaslighting

by Guest Contributor | July 23, 2024
We keep hearing that we should "follow the science." Sometimes, though, scams are coated in scientific veneer ...

Project 2025: Wingnut Wing Flapping

by Jeff Ruch |
The realities of a second Trump term are scary enough without the need to spend time worrying about boogeymen conjured up by the Heritage Foundation ...

EPA Lacks a PFAS Containment Strategy

by Tim Whitehouse | July 17, 2024
To stop the forever chemical crisis, EPA must interrupt the flow of PFAS reaching our water, soil, and food chain every day ...

America’s Ailing Overgrazed Rangelands

The latest figures from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management paint a bleak picture of the ecological health of America’s public rangelands ...