Commentary

Kyla Bennett testified in front of the Colorado Oil and Gas Commission to require a robust analysis of the impacts of oil and gas development ...

Under the Trump administration, BLM has declined even further than in previous decades. We hope for a brighter future for BLM, which is so needed ...

EPA delayed and continues to delay release of its interactive PFAS map, which shows local sources of PFAS, forever chemicals linked to cancer ...

A new administration must stop address climate change, stop the fossil fuel madness and rapidly work to heal our degraded public lands ...

The EPA is crippling the Environmental Appeals Board, disempowering communities and enabling polluters ...

Trump's latest attempt to avoid the Senate’s confirmation process is Lanny Erdos of the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement ...

PEER outlines the critical steps that the National Park Service must take in order to return the agency to its original mission and move into the future ...

Interior Secretary David Bernhardt’s Autocratic Power Grab In an obscure announcement on July 22nd about President Trump’s border wall obsession, the Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, stated that he was handing 66 acres managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the ...

NOAA has informed its employees to avoid mentions of COVID-19 in publicly available documents as the hyper-political White House attempts to win reelection ...

The IUCN has uplisted the North Atlantic right whales from endangered to critically endangered which means is it "facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild ...

Former DOE scientist Bill Dam reveals groundwater contamination coming from several former uranium mills in Wyoming, endangering two Native American tribes ...

In light of the dangerous pattern of retaliation by the Trump Administration against those who report wrongdoing, it is more important than ever to preserve and reform federal whistleblower protections ...

Trump plans to stage a dangerous distraction disguised as fireworks at Mt. Rushmore, risking both wildfires and potentially, public health from the crowds ...

Pollinators are collapsing around the world and even more so in the United States. What we are witnessing is an “insect apocalypse ...

Not passing the HEROES Act will have devastating consequences to the economy, state governments and the public sector workforce ...

National Forests receive less attention than parks during COVID-19, but overcrowding, lack of resources, and risk to gateway communities are the same ...

The advice the government gets from its formal scientific advisors should be robust and independent, and the government should rely on the expertise of those advisors ...

The University of Colorado Boulder needs to ensure that special interests are not controlling climate change research conducted by university scientists ...

In the midst of a pandemic, corruption at the Department of Interior continues with slashed oil and gas royalties and fines on renewable energy companies ...

In order for national parks to remain “America’s Best Idea,” park managers must move from merely maximizing crowds to actually managing them ...