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Two Saved

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On July 13, 2017
The Trump administration's grotesque attempt to reduce or destroy the wonderful national monuments created in the last twenty years has at least taken two monuments off the chopping block. We can at least be allowed to enjoy the Hanford Reach in Washington and Craters of...
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The Republican Party has basically made Cliven Bundy Donald Trump's Secretary of the Interior: The Republican platform committee met this week to draft the document that defines the party’s official principles and policies. Along with provisions on pornography and LGBT “conversion therapy” is an amendment...
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Public Lands Enemy #1

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On April 12, 2016
As I have said a few times here, the Republican reaction to the Bundy occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is to embrace their policy positions, if not their direct action politics. Of course, that has been the policy of most western Republicans for...
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Environmental News and Notes

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On October 8, 2015
A bunch of smaller stories on environmental issues that deserve some attention: 1) With buildings collapsing in Oklahoma from the plethora of earthquakes caused by fracking, maybe someone in the state will make the connection and suggest that we need to research these earthquakes before...

The Public Lands

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On April 11, 2015

It's worth remembering that central to the Republican agenda is selling off every acre of public land possible (which is everything outside of national parks, national monuments, national preserves, and.

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