The Trump Administration Is Moving Forward With Plans for Scaled-Down Utah Monuments
But to those awaiting the outcome of legal challenges to the president's reductions, the planning seems premature.
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A Top DOI Official Had at Least Six Meetings With the Mining Industry. She Then Helped Cancel a Study on the Public-Health Effects of Mining.
Records obtained by Pacific Standard reveal that a top official at the DOI had a hand in nixing a government-funded public-health study in Appalachia—after a series of meetings with some of the most powerful mining players in the country.
How Welfare Ranchers Take Taxpayers for a Ride
Ranchers on BLM land have 94 percent of their grazing costs covered by taxpayers. And they target wild horses for removal in order to preserve the rangeland that makes this financial windfall possible.
A Top Adviser at the Department of the Interior Is Under Fire After Meeting Extensively With Oil and Mining Representatives
Public records show that a senior DOI adviser has met with mining and fossil-fuel representatives far more than she has with environmentalists.
It’s the End of the Beginning of the End for Coal
The government has suspended new coal leases on federal land. The coal industry may never recover.
Do We Need a ‘Mustang-Safe’ Label for Beef?
The response to an especially ugly round-up of wild horses in Oregon suggests we might.
Western Cattlemen Square Off Against 60,000 Mustangs
Can wild horses co-exist with ranchers and their grazing cows?
Can Wild Horses and Ranchers Co-Exist?
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.
How a Conservative Billionaire Is Moving Heaven and Earth to Become the Biggest Alternative Energy Giant in the Country
Philip Anschutz wants to turn his 500-square-mile cattle ranch into the world’s largest wind farm. The project would generate four times more electricity than the Hoover Dam, enough to power all of the households in Los Angeles and San Francisco. It would also make Anschutz the nation’s most unlikely environmental hero—if he can ever get the thing built.
Tilting at Windmills
An early look at a Pacific Standard story that's currently only available to subscribers.