Tag: Department of the Interior
Guest Post: Coloradans cherish their public lands. Don’t let Trump’s...
Two years ago this week, the Department of the Interior rolled out a doctrine that may inflict extensive, long-lasting harm to wildlife on our...
Guest Post: Secretary of the Interior – public citizen or...
The Coloradan nominated by President Trump to pick up the pieces from Ryan Zinke’s tumultuous tenure of the Department of Interior, David Bernhardt, knows...
Interior overhauls sage grouse conservation
On a windy morning in September 2015, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell stood at a podium on a patch of scruffy earth at Colorado’s Rocky...
Jeb Bush outlines plans to limit federal control of Western lands
This story originally appeared on High Country News.
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush this week waded deeper into issues of public land than any other...
Threats of another lawsuit looms over Colowyo after expansion OK’d
The Colowyo Mine, at the heart of a climate-change motivated lawsuit between the environmental group WildEarth Guardians and the U.S. Department of the Interior,...
Department of the Interior blasted for not appealing WildEarth Guardians lawsuit
Colorado senators, Republican Cory Gardner and Democrat Michael Bennet, joined Republican Rep. Scott Tipton last week in writing a letter to the Department of...
Endangered Species Act settlement deal could break listing logjam
A federal judge late last week signed off on a deal struck between the WildEarth Guardians environmental group and the U.S. Department of the Interior that would compel the federal government to reach final Endangered Species Act listing decisions on 253 species in the next five years.
Ken Salazar releases It Gets Better video
Inspired by the numerous videos that have already been created as a part of the anti-suicide and anti-bullying public awareness campaign “It Gets Better,” federal government employees from the National Parks Service, U.S. Geological Survey and other agencies have launched their own.
Perlmutter calls Ritter decision ‘nightmare for Republican Party’
U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, mentioned early and often as a potential Democratic replacement for Gov. Bill Ritter -- who announced Wednesday morning he won't...
Lamborn wants to force Salazar’s hand on oil shale with PIONEER...
Republican Colorado Congressman Doug Lamborn recently introduced a bill that would reinstate the Bush administration’s midnight oil shale leasing regulations that were quickly reversed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in the first month’s of the Obama administration.
Besides winning the award for the most convoluted legislative acronym, Lamborn’s Protecting Investment in Oil shale the Next generation of Environment, Energy, and Resource security (PIONEER) Act, H.R. 2540, comes at a time when Colorado officials are skeptically asking for more accountability from current oil shale leases.