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BLM finalizes solar plan for Colorado, the West

by PEER | December 30, 2024
Among entities that filed protests related to the solar plan were Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or PEER, which along with some others raised concerns about threats from solar development to the Old Spanish National Historic Trail. That route runs from Santa Fe to Los ...

Feds sued over Old Spanish Trail management

by PEER | December 10, 2024
The suit points in part to the Bureau of Land Management recently providing for only a 50-meter trail buffer when it comes to surface disturbances related to oil and gas leasing in its amended resource management plan for the Grand Junction Field Office. Plaintiffs in the suit include ...

Suit: BLM environmental reviews lacking for grazing in Colorado, other states

by PEER | September 16, 2023
A new lawsuit accuses the Bureau of Land Management of often failing to do required environmental reviews of grazing permits in Colorado and other western states, particularly in areas in western Colorado and elsewhere where grazing can potentially impact species such as sage-grouse and ...

Federal grazing fee to stay at lowest allowable level

by PEER | February 28, 2023
For the fifth straight year, ranchers will pay the lowest allowable amount for grazing livestock on federal land in the West. The Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility recently criticized the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service for ...

Monument ahead of the game in minimizing plastic waste

by PEER | June 17, 2022
Last seek Interior Secretary Deb Haaland issued an order seeking to reduce the procurement, sale and distribution of single-use plastic products and packaging, with a goal of phasing out single-use plastic products on all lands managed by the Interior Department by 2032. According to ...
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