MAGA God Squad Sentences Critically Endangered Whale Species to Extinction For the first time of the 53-year history of the Endangered Species Act, wildlife protections are waived for "national security" reasons

Today, the "God Squad" convened to waive ESA restrictions for oil/gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

Requested by Hegseth and led by Burgum, this group, also called the Extinction Committee, took 15 minutes to destroy a decades-old law.

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Interior Department Plans to Transfer 2.1 Million Acres of Public Land to Alaska for Development State of Alaska eyes massive tract of federal public land along the Dalton Highway

This is one of the largest potential transfers of public land in modern American history—and one of the least understood.

Learn more about it here.

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Interior Department Opens All Its Public Lands and Waters to Hunting and Fishing, Unless Restricted by Individual Managers Sweeping new order makes hunting and fishing a default use of most Interior-managed public lands and waters

Today, the Interior Department announced that it will open all its public lands and waters to hunting and fishing, except for those where individual managers or laws expressly prohibit them.

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Project 2025 and the Assault on Our Public Lands, Waters, and Wildlife A look at how Project 2025 continues to determine public land management decisions

In case you’re wondering where that relentless barrage of attacks on our public land, waters, and wildlife is (and keeps) coming from, there’s one very simple answer: Project 2025.

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How Venezuelan Oil Could Relief Pressure to Drill on America's Public Lands In an increasingly complicated world, a foreign regime change could affect domestic land management

There’s a lot to say about the U.S. government’s actions in Venezuela, but one consequence could be that certain vulnerable places in America could be spared from drilling.

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Legal experts say Trump unlawfully put own face on national parks pass The redesign is likely illegal based on the act that created the pass.

I had a chat with an editor from SFGate this morning about the possible illegality of Trump's face on next year's America the Beautiful pass. Here's the article!

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1.9K views · 141 reactions | The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge deserves our protection. I’m on the Senate floor to tell you why. | Senator Martin Heinrich The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge deserves our protection. I’m on the Senate floor to tell you why.

"I think Teddy Roosevelt must be tired from rolling over in his grave."

- New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich when talking about the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge on the Senate floor today

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Wealthy Ranchers Profit From Public Lands. Taxpayers Pick Up the Tab. A ProPublica and High Country News investigation found that government programs supporting grazing on public lands prop up a wealthy few while harming the environment. The Trump administration is supe...

Taxpayer-funded benefits flow directly to "ranchers" like Stan Kroenke, who's married to a Walmart-fortune heiress.

We're, quite literally, paying billionaires to play rancher and destroy our watersheds in the process.

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