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New Transmission Line Ensures Destructive Energy Development on Great Basin’s Public Lands

by PEER | September 10, 2024
BLM has approved a major high voltage transmission line, opening up Nevada’s most remote, scenic, and biologically significant areas to development ...

Conservation Groups Request Protection from Solar Energy Sprawl in Pahrump Valley, Nevada

by PEER | July 29, 2024
An Old Spanish Trail – Pahrump Valley ACEC proposal has been submitted to protect outstanding cultural and natural from the bulldozers ...

COMMENTARY | 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 ...

Sage-Grouse Recovery Imperiled by Overgrazing

by PEER | July 25, 2024
BLM’s Livestock Mismanagement Tramples Sage-Grouse Comeback Hopes ...

COMMENTARY | 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 ...