Tag: environment

BLM’s “Deputy Director acting in the capacity of Director” William Perry Pendley, continues to ignore abandoned mines and focus on removing America’s wild horses from public lands

William Perry Pendley, serving an illegally long tenure as BLM “Deputy Director acting in the capacity of Director” by Debbie Coffey Brian Maffley wrote a Salt Lake Tribune article about William Perry Pendley, the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) “Deputy Director acting in the capacity of Director,” and […]

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BLM plan for fuel breaks in Great Basin to cost millions of dollars but will scar public lands and make wildfires worse

BLM’s multi-state HORRIBLE fuel break proposal includes areas where there are wild horses & burros.  The BLM’s plan is to use chemicals, bulldozers, livestock grazing and chaining to make an 11,000 mile (500 feet wide) vegetation-free land scar across our public lands. (Laid end-to-end, from Reno it would […]

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The Terrible Destruction of Pinyon-Juniper Forests

SOURCE:  Counterpunch.org “Public lands ranchers have always hated the trees.  Just like native predators are killed as rancher enemies, native trees (and sage) take up space where grass might grow so they must be destroyed.  In all of these projects, BLM ballyhoos wildfire suppression benefits, ignoring that deforestation creates hotter, […]

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A Trump Win for the Environment? Maybe

By The Editorial Board as published on the New York Times Business groups and Senate Republicans are pushing to strengthen the ozone-saving Montreal Protocol. It should be an easy call for President Trump. Into the bleak landscape that is the Trump administration’s environmental record comes a new report […]

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OVER 340 ORGANIZATIONS CALL ON TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TO ABANDON RUSHED REWRITE OF NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT

Source:  Earthjustice.org NEPA helps communities protect themselves from dangerous, rushed or poorly planned federal projects. It was instrumental in safeguarding the town of Arecibo, Puerto Rico against a proposed incinerator that would further compromise the air quality of a community already at-risk. Bedrock law, authored to solidify environmental […]

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