Public records show that industry groups and conservative politicians have had the ear of top Department of the Interior officials as they seek to dismantle conservation protections for the imperiled species.
A new Department of the Interior report recommends rolling back parts of a compromise protection plan implemented less than two years ago.
The Department of the Interior's sage grouse review is a big win for fossil fuel interests.
A recent compromise, hammered out to protect sage grouse, shows it's possible for conservation and business interests in the West to work together.
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.
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