Showing posts with label land withdrawal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label land withdrawal. Show all posts
January 1, 2017

Obama’s public lands policy leaves legacy of conflict

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Push to control state lands at odds with locals Interior Secretary Sally Jewell looks from Dead Horse Point, near Moab, Utah, where Presiden...
December 27, 2016

BLM bans new mining claims in protected desert land areas

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By Jim Steinberg San Bernardino Sun T he federal Bureau of Land Management wants to halt new mining claims from sprouting up on more tha...
October 10, 2014

Federal Court: One Million Acres Near Grand Canyon Protected From Mining

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The Grand Canyon (Shutterstock) by Ari Phillips Climate Progress I n early October, an Arizona federal judge upheld the Obama Adminis...
September 1, 2009

Massive desert wildlife refuge effort nears OK

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By Stephanie Tavares Las Vegas Sun T he Desert National Wildlife Refuge Complex is on the verge of becoming a reality. The complex wou...
April 9, 2009

Solving Congress

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Remember the days when our elected representatives to Congress would attempt to accomplish something by actually introducing a bill, debatin...
March 30, 2009

Lost In An Energy Wilderness

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Energy Policy: The House approves a Senate-passed omnibus bill that puts 2 million more acres of energy-rich land off-limits. We need a gove...

Obama to sign lands bill before 5 days of comment

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Stephen Dinan Washington Times P resident Obama on Monday will sign the omnibus land conservation bill - yet again breaking his vow to allow...

To the victors

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Letters to the editor Los Angeles Times Re “Major wilderness bill OKd,” March 26 T he Times' photo and story are so misleading. You have...
March 26, 2009

Wilderness protection bill gets Congress' OK

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The legislation gives maximum federal protection to more than 2 million acres in nine states, including more than 700,000 acres in Californi...
March 24, 2009

Feinstein wants desert swath off-limits to solar, wind

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In a move that could pit environmentalists and alternative energy industries against each other, the senator wants hundreds of thousands of ...
March 19, 2009

Lands bill displays Senate egoism over common sense

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Senate defeats five Coburn amendments, accepts one Press Release Senator Tom Coburn M.D. (R-OK) (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – U.S. Senator Tom Coburn...
March 18, 2009

Feinstein Seeks to Preserve Former Catellus Lands

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office Press Release Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the author of the 1994 Californ...

Senate poised to move quickly on Omnibus

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Procedural maneuver designed to nullify House vote By Noelle Straub and Eric Bontrager Environment & Energy Daily T he Senate today will...
March 13, 2009

Alliance proposes establishing Route 66 national monument

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By DAVID DANELSKI The Press-Enterprise P reservationists worried about military expansion and renewable energy development in the California...
March 12, 2009

Wilderness preservation bill narrowly defeated

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Washington Post March 12, 2009 Washington -- A bill to designate 2 million acres in nine states as protected wilderness was narrowly defeate...
March 11, 2009

Public Lands Bill Defeated in House

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By Kate Phillips New York Times F or now, the mega-public lands bill that would have greatly expanded public wilderness areas, parks and mil...
March 5, 2009

Extensive lands protection bill could thwart new energy development

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By SCOTT STREATER New York Times T he 111th Congress is poised to usher in the largest expansion of the nation's wilderness in a generat...

Public Lands Bill Threatens Energy, Economy

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Written by William F. Jasper New American W ith our economy already staggering under an avalanche of debt, taxes, regulations, and the high ...