Tag: Federal Lands

For Many in Wyoming, a Biden Plan to Protect Land Is Beyond Unpopular

Of all of the efforts by the Biden administration to protect environmentally fragile lands, few have generated as much vitriol as a proposal that would block oil and gas drilling on 1.6 million acres of high desert sagebrush steppe in Wyoming. One lawmaker in the Republican-led Wyoming Legislature called President Biden’s plan an attempt at […]

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Ambler Access Project Would Cause Environmental Harm Analysis Finds

A proposed 211-mile industrial road that would cut through pristine Alaskan wilderness to reach a planned copper and zinc mine would disrupt the way of life in Native Alaska communities, harm fish and caribou, and likely speed the thawing of permafrost, according to an environmental review released by the Biden administration on Friday. The road, […]

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Biden Cracks Down on Drilling and Mining

President Biden’s decision on Wednesday to block drilling on millions of acres of Alaskan tundra was the latest in a series of aggressive actions recently taken by the administration to curtail fossil fuel extraction on public land and in federal waters. Over the past several months, the administration has moved to bar drilling on 1.8 […]

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