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BLM

Trump Administration Kills Rule Putting Conservation of Public Lands on Equal Footing With Resource Extraction

Biden’s Public Lands Rule ensured protecting or rehabilitating federal land would be as legitimate a use as mining, logging or drilling. Republicans and developers said it was a threat to the principle of “multiple use.”

By Wyatt Myskow

The Pinyon Plain uranium mine located within the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni National Monument, a few miles from Grand Canyon National Park, in Tusayan, Ariz. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
An aerial photo shows the oil rig collapsed in the snow next to a snowy road, emergency vehicles and an industrial complex

As an Oil Rig Topples in the Alaskan Arctic and Ignites a Fire, Exploration There Continues

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Then-Rep. Steve Pearce (R-N.M.) speaks during an event at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian on May 24, 2016, in Washington, D.C. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Conservation Groups Blast Trump’s Latest Choice to Head Up the Bureau of Land Management

By Kiley Price

The Beaver Creek Wild and Scenic River runs through federal land near the White Mountains National Recreation Area in Alaska. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

House Republicans’ Use of Little-Known Law to Strike Down Public Land Plans Could Be Pandora’s Box Moment

By Zoë Rom

An oil and gas operation on leased public land in Kerns County, California. Credit: John Ciccarelli/BLM

Trump Administration Moves to Dismantle Conservation as an Official Use of Public Lands

By Anika Jane Beamer

Bureau of Land Management employees check on an oil and gas development site on public land in Colorado. Credit: BLM Colorado

BLM Calls New Oil and Gas Rules ‘Noncontroversial,’ Exempts Them From Public Comment

By Jake Bolster

Heavy vehicles stop moving as a timed detonation brings down a wide coal face at the Buckskin Coal Mine, in Gillette, Wyoming. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg via Getty Images

House Committee Offers Fossil Fuel Industry a ‘Once in a Generation’ Opportunity to Develop on Public Lands

By Jake Bolster

Pronghorn roam through a natural gas field in the Green River Basin, managed by the Bureau of Land Management, in Southwestern Wyoming. Credit: Tara Boucher/BLM Wyoming

With a Veteran Oil and Gas Lobbyist Nominated To Lead the BLM, Westerners Worry About Wildlife and Renewable Energy

By Jake Bolster

The state of Utah believes it should be given Bureau of Land Management lands, including the San Rafael Swell. Credit: Bob Wick/BLM

Utah’s Quixotic Bid To Wrest Millions Of Acres From The Federal Government

By Kurt Repanshek, National Parks Traveler

Cows graze near a coal-fired power plant on Nov. 22, 2022 in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Credit: Natalie Behring/Getty Images

A Long-Delayed BLM Resource Management Plan in Southwest Wyoming Pits Conservation Against Resource Extraction

By Jake Bolster

Pronghorn migrate in Wyoming. Credit: Joel Berger

A BLM Proposal to Protect Wildlife Corridors Could Restore the West’s ‘Veins and Arteries’

By Adam Goldstein

U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), at the U.S. Capitol in January 2019.

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys

The Trump administration plans to hold an oil leasing sale for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the final days of the Trump presidency. Credit: Universal Education/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Not Waiting for Public Comment, Trump Administration Schedules Lease Sale for Arctic Wildlife Refuge

By Sabrina Shankman

William Perry Pendley, who has been leading the Bureau of Land Management since July, testifies before a House committee. Credit: Congress

Controversial BLM Chief's Tenure Extended Again, Despite Protests

By Judy Fahys

Thousands of Jobs Riding on Extension of Clean Energy Cash Grant Program

By Sara Stroud

Anxious Geothermal, Solar Industries Looking to U.S. Interior for a Hand

By Stacy Feldman

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