Federal lands
Environmentalists called the reforms long overdue. Industry says they will drive small producers off of federal lands.
“It’s not right now what we are discussing,” the vice president said of the idea progressives have been pushing.
Sens. Steve Daines and John Barrasso, who had no concerns about an anti-public lands ideologue overseeing federal land, say Rep. Deb Haaland is too “radical.”
The president’s latest executive actions put a pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal acres and set an aggressive conservation goal.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
In an open letter, more than 400 elected officials pledge to do their part to achieve the new administration's ambitious conservation goal.
It turns out treating the environment and public lands as an afterthought doesn’t sit well with many Americans.
Conservationists and Senate Democrats ardently opposed William Perry Pendley as permanent chief of the Bureau of Land Management.
Let the mudslinging and greenwashing begin.
William Perry Pendley's record makes him "unfit" to permanently head the Bureau of Land Management, the lawmakers informed the White House.
William Perry Pendley says his personal views and past actions are “irrelevant” when it comes to leading an agency that manages more than one-third of all federal land.