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Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) is engaged with the federal government on many fronts and emphasizes that it fully supports the transition to renewable energy and decarbonization. “We believe our federal government is capable of achieving these goals the right ...

A Nevada conservation group is among the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed on Monday, Dec. 9, that aims to protect the historic Old Spanish Trail as development spreads into remote regions in the Southwest. The lawsuit alleges failure to provide a comprehensive management plan, arguing the ...

Conservation groups are questioning the Bureau of Land Management’s “skewed priorities” in decisions surrounding the path of a massive powerline project between Las Vegas and Northern Nevada. Email exchanges between BLM officials and the leader of Basin and Range Watch, Kevin ...

Video showing a colt hurting its leg as it fights to get away from wranglers is the latest flashpoint in advocates’ criticism of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) roundups on Nevada ranges. “A mare and her colt escaped. The colt is now dead,” according to an account on Wild Horse ...

A wild horse roundup currently underway in Northern Nevada is expected to gather about 2,875 horses to put up for adoption. The use of helicopters leads to injuries as the horses are gathered, and a 2023 lawsuit highlighted the death of a horse in eastern Nevada that was put to death after ...