Congress can raise revenues to fund climate action on public lands by fixing the broken federal leasing program.
Leaders in the House are defying President Trump’s anti-environmental crusade by passing bills to protect nature.
The Trump administration is proposing to gut environmental review, clearing the way for fossil fuel corporations to build more polluting projects with less public input and without considering the impacts of climate change.
The Trump administration’s attacks on Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and Tongass National Forest could release almost 5 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent—almost as much pollution as all of the world’s cars emit in a year.
In the West, 60 percent of oil and gas leases offered by the Trump administration are in areas of high water stress, posing a potential threat to the water security of farmers and local communities.
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt wants to make it tougher for environmental watchdogs to hold the Interior Department accountable, but his new policy wastes taxpayer funds.
With the Trump administration intent on holding an oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge this year, three corporations have gone to extreme lengths to keep secret their information about what lies beneath it.
As both the U.S. Department of the Interior’s deputy secretary and secretary, David Bernhardt has pushed a destructive anti-conservation agenda with a flagrant disregard for the coequal branches of U.S. government.
A new CAP analysis finds near unanimous public opposition to drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; yet the Trump administration still seems intent to pursue the lease sale.
David Bernhardt is the least popular nominee the Senate has ever confirmed to be secretary of the interior, and under his watch, the Bureau of Land Management has offered one-quarter of oil and gas lease sales in wildlife corridors and priority areas.
The Trump administration’s actions are likely to undermine previous federal efforts to protect the greater sage-grouse population and could end up forcing changes in the Endangered Species Act.
