The Wilderness Society submitted these scoping comments to the Bureau of Land Management addressing the Battle Mountain, Nevada, resource management plan revision on March 4, 2011.
In a letter to Doc Hastings, Chairman of House Committee on Natural Resources and Edward Markey, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Natural Resources, The Wilderness Society President William H. Meadows sent words of support for Secretarial Order #330 announced in late December 2010.
Business owners and outfitters from the West reached out to House and Senate leaders to ensure they recognize how important wild lands protection is to the economy.
The Department of Energy’s flawed implementation of regional designations known as National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors resulted in a court decision on behalf of 10 states and 15 environmental and conservation groups.
A letter was delivered to the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee signed by the Directors and President's of more than 40 conservation groups engaged in protecting America's public lands.
67 elected officials from Arizona, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming signed a letter of support for Secretarial Order 3310 that was announced in December.
Although the oil and gas industry and their allies have criticized Obama Administration policies for allegedly restricting the industry’s access to federal lands for drilling, new data shows that the industry is sitting on millions of acres and thousands of unused leases.
The oil and gas industry claims that the only way to address our country’s numerous energy issues is to open more public lands and waters to oil and natural gas drilling.