Removing the wolves from the federal list of endangered species may have imperiled animals that play a key role in mountain ecosystems.
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Posted inDay One Agenda
Biden Could Shut Down Oil and Gas Leasing on Federal Lands
That’s just one of many authorities available to the Interior Department on day one.
Posted inCivil Rights in America
Border Wall Desecrates Native American Lands in Southern California and Arizona
Tribes protest and litigate in an ongoing bid to halt construction of the notorious project.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Through Snow and Rain, Tree Sitters Continue to Fight a Gas Pipeline
The protests, intended to slow down the Mountain Valley Pipeline in Virginia and West Virginia, are now in their second year.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Bat Fight: Environmentalists Sue Feds for Failing to Protect Bats
Four environmental groups allege that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service missed a key opportunity to save threatened bats.
Posted inFeatures
This Land Was Your Land
In Utah and other Western states, the country’s most pristine wilderness faces new threats from Big Energy and its powerful allies.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Slow and Steady Wins the Anti-Keystone XL Race
The southern end of the tar-sands pipeline is mostly completed, but the opposition is just getting started.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Keystone XL’s Beetlemania
How an endangered species barely an inch long could be a big barrier to TransCanada’s pipeline dreams.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Wolves to the Slaughter
The reintroduction of the gray wolf to the Northern Rockies was an ecological success story—until big money, old superstitions, and politics got in the way.