Federal lands

Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Make Extreme Animal Cruelty A Federal Felony

The PACT Act would close legal loopholes in animal cruelty laws that involve the most extreme abuses on federal land and in interstate commerce.
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Plan To Sell Public Land To Mining Company Is Seen As Reward For Bad Behavior

The Bureau of Land Management is looking to sell 70 acres of conservation land to a limestone mining company that unlawfully discarded waste materials on it.
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Ryan Zinke Taps Cousin Of Anti-Federal-Land Zealot For National Park Advisory Board

Ellis Ivory, a retired Utah homebuilder, once donated $6,000 to Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory's pro-land-transfer nonprofit.
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Ryan Zinke, Lover Of Public Lands, Can't Keep His Staff From Proposing Sell-Offs

As his agency looks to unload 200 acres in Utah, the interior secretary played host to land-transfer advocates.
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Trump Administration Rushes To Lease Federal Lands

The Department of Interior is quietly preparing to offer hundreds of thousands of acres of public land for leasing to energy companies.
By Alexander Nazaryan, Yahoo News

Trump Administration Scraps Plan To Sell Land Cut From Utah Monument

An Interior Department official claims Secretary Ryan Zinke "did not see the proposal before it went out and was not happy about it."
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The Trump Administration Is Suing California Again

This time the fight's over a new state law that limits the sale of federal lands.
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