Jayson O'Neill

December 17, 2020 by

Good news and bad news

First, the bad news: President Trump’s administration has been the most devastating for climate, conservation, and public lands in the history of our country. Not only that, but he is now using the lame-duck period to do as much damage as possible on his way out the door.

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December 16, 2020 by

Arctic Grayling

Revealed: New Endangered Species Habitat Definition Crafted By Conflicted Trump Official

This new narrow definition of habitat was crafted by one of Trump’s most conflicted political appointees Karen Budd-Falen, the original darling of the anti-public lands Sagebrush Rebellion movement. Budd-Falen’s clear conflicts of interest raise serious ethical questions about her stated involvement in this process.

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October 28, 2020 by

Tongass National Forest

Tongass Decision Cements Trump’s Legacy As Worst Public Lands President In History

This decision cemented Trump’s legacy as the worst public lands president in U.S. history, period. The list of destructive decisions by this administration is long, but between illegally eviscerating America’s national monuments to now opening the Tongass to industrial logging, no other president has unilaterally removed more protections for America’s cherished public lands than Trump. This is truly a reflection of the corrupt special interest influence driving decisions within Trump’s administration that are not only wrong but also wildly outside of what Americans want and value.

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October 20, 2020 by

Trump, Exxon Have Teamed Up to Exploit Public Lands

President Donald Trump’s suggestion that fossil fuel corporations like Exxon would be willing to give him large campaign contributions in exchange for federal government drilling permits follows a long love affair between the president and the company.  

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October 19, 2020 by

FACT: Amy Coney Barrett has sided with corporations over people 76% of the time.

In the middle of a climate crisis, the very LAST thing our public lands and environment need is Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court. Will you sign our petition, calling for a Supreme Court justice who will put our public lands and environment before Big Business?

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October 12, 2020 by

On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, a Reminder of Trump’s Disastrous Record and Land Manager’s Overt Racism

Critical legal cases and rulings that impact Indigenous peoples’ rights, tribal sovereignty and their lands could also take a dark turn if Trump places corporate activist Judge Amy Coney Barrett onto the nation’s top judicial court. Barrett is a professed disciple of the late Justice Scalia. The former justice sided against Tribal interests 86% of the time, according to an analysis by the Native American Rights Fund.

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September 25, 2020 by

Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley

Court Rejects Trump’s Public Lands Managers Illegal Tenure; Avoids All Actions

One day was too long for an extremist like Pendley at the helm of America’s public lands and natural resources. It’s been four years of the Trump administration and corrupt Interior Secretary Bernhardt violating the law and ignoring the Constitution. While it’s a strong affirmation of the rule of law, it’s truly disappointing to see the majority in the U.S. Senate stand idly by as this administration flaunts it.

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September 25, 2020 by

Acting BLM Director William Perry Pendley

New Polling Reveals Constitutional Conundrum for Key Senators Over Trump’s Former Top Land Manager

Voters in Six States Resoundingly Reject Acting Public Lands Manager Pendley’s Illegal Tenure New polling commissioned by Western Values Project, an Accountable.US project focused on public lands accountability, found that voters across six […]

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September 25, 2020 by

Tongass National Forest

Alaska Tongass Logging Expansion Born Out Of Trump’s Political Swamp

This decision was born out of the same corruption and cronyism that has dominated the Trump administration from the start. The revolving door, shady lobbyists, and disregard for the wishes of Alaskans and Indigenous communities are everything that’s wrong with how President Trump has managed our nation’s public lands and forests.

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September 25, 2020 by

Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Holds Hearing On The Nomination Of David Bernhardt For Interior Secretary

The Trump Administration’s Four Years of Attacks On Our Public Lands

Over the past four years, the Trump administration has unilaterally ushered in the largest reductions to public lands protections and scrapped the largest habitat protection agreement in history, discredited science and climate science, issued countless rollbacks to bedrock environmental protections for corporate special interests, and repeatedly run afoul of the law.

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