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Mexican Gray Wolf Livestock Kills Are Rising Rapidly in Arizona and New Mexico
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Endangered Mexican gray wolves, reintroduced by the federal government to parts of the Southwestern United States, have killed nearly as many cows and calves in the first four months of 2019 as they did all of last year. -
Heartland Brief Exposes Green New Deal’s Environmental Extremism and Authoritarian Socialism
Publication -The Leaflet -Heartland Brief Exposes Green New Deal’s Environmental Extremism and Authoritarian Socialism -
Research & Commentary: Heartland Brief Exposes Green New Deal’s Environmental Extremism and Authoritarian Socialism
Publication -Research and Commentaries -Tremendously Expensive Proposal Would Devastate U.S. Economy, Cause More Environmental Destruction Than Protection -
Matt Gaetz’s ‘Green Real Deal’ Is Big-Government, Economy-Killing Climate Alarmism
Opinion -Editorial -Congressman Matt Gore – er, I mean Matt Gaetz – unveiled a ‘Green Real Deal’ this month, showing he is in full agreement with Al Gore-style climate alarmism. -
Senate Confirms Bernhardt as Interior Secretary
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The U.S. Senate confirmed David Bernhardt as the 53rd Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior by a vote of 56 to 41. -
Environmentalists Are Using Bees for a Steroid-Infused Land Grab
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Natural Resources Defense Council sued the U.S. Department of the Interior for declining to designate “critical habitat” for the rusty patched bumblebee, which the Obama administration designated as endangered just before leaving office. -
Ode to a Butterfly
Opinion -Editorial -Observing a monarch butterfly in the 1850s, Emily Dickinson wrote about its apparently aimless flitting, “Repairing everywhere, without design that I could trace, except to stray abroad on miscellaneous enterprise, the clovers understood.” -
Green Land Grabs on Steroids
Opinion -Editorial -Using bees to block human activities on land 15 times bigger than Virginia – or even more. -
Federal Judge Bans Fracking Off the California Coast
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge has barred the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) from issuing permits for hydraulic fracturing in U.S. territorial waters off the coast of California. -
This Time They Went Too Far
Opinion -Editorial -You can count on your ten fingers the number of times the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled unanimously on any environmental issue. -
Trump Administration Seeks New DOI Secretary After Zinke Steps Down
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Ryan Zinke stepped down as Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) at the end of 2018. -
Governing Without Congress
Opinion -Editorial -If America’s founders had been forced to choose between having no Congress, or no President, they would quickly have chosen the latter. -
President Trump Acts to Free Up Water for Western Farmers
Opinion -environment-climate-news -President Donald Trump signed a memorandum slashing federal environmental regulations which limit and slow the delivery of water and hydroelectric power in the Western states, including California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington state. -
Federal Judge Reinstates Grizzly Bear Rule
Opinion -environment-climate-news -A federal judge in Montana ordered the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to restore federal protections for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. -
Improving the Interior Department’s Science and Policies
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #303 -
Trump Points Out Political Agenda Behind Climate Change Activism
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #302 -
More Misplaced Environmentalist Outrage
Opinion -Editorial -Greens are angry that Interior modified a rule they wanted to use to attack energy and ranching. -
Lizard’s Legal Status Threatens Texas Oil and Gas Operations
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Texans are once again engaged in a battle to protect both a tiny reptile—the dunes sagebrush lizard—and the giant Permian Basin oil and gas industry. -
Heartland Weekly: Shameful Politicization of Hurricanes
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of September 24, 2018 -
We Must All Sacrifice for the Environment (But I Meant You – Not Me!)
Opinion -Editorial -Have we become a society of people who want to regulate others, but not ourselves? -
Oh, the Humanity!
Opinion -Editorial -How we long for the good old days! That is the tone of some environmental industry leaders who are screaming bloody murder (literally, not figuratively) about the Interior Department’s interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. -
Federal Court Pulls Natural Gas Pipeline Permits
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered a halt to construction on the 600-mile pipeline Atlantic Coast Pipeline designed to carry natural gas across West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina. -
A Double Ban Gets a Double Reversal
Opinion -Editorial -Interior Department reverses activist-initiated Obama-era ban on farming activities in refuges. -
Pushing Sustainability for Orwellian Ends
Opinion -environment-climate-news -In Sustainable, DeWeese details the increasing efforts by socialist-leaning groups to remove our property rights and individual freedoms under the banner of “sustainability.”
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