Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
As I discussed in a previous post, the Wilderness Act of 1964 authorizes Congress to protect our nation's wildest lands in order to preserve their natural state and all of the values associated with their wildness. Wilderness Study Areas (WSAs) are lands that...
Posted by Amy Mall in Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In recent months, several publications have purported to calculate the costs of NRDC proposals to protect human health, clean air and clean water from contamination generated by oil and gas production. But these "costs," used by industry to fight new protections, are grossly exaggerated and...
Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
There is a great little film about Wyoming's wild Red Desert posted on our sister blog, greenlight, part of OnEarth magazine. At NRDC we are working hard to protect the Red Desert through advocacy, litigation, and education. The Red Desert is part...
Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Earlier this month Exxon-Mobil Corporation pleaded guilty in federal court to causing the deaths of approximately 85 birds that were exposed to toxic oil and gas waste left in open air pits and tanks in five different states. These birds were protected...
Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Tonight I get to combine a few of my favorite things: PBS, Pete Seeger, and the Roadless Rule. PBS is broadcasting Pete Seeger's 90th Birthday Celebration as I write. Mr. Seeger, an American icon, is known for many things, among them...
Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
My NRDC colleague Niel Lawrence recently posted important news on the The Hill's Congress Blog. I've also pasted it below: Last week Agriculture Secretary Vilsack made a terrific move toward protecting federal wildlands when he announced that road building or logging in...
Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Earlier this year, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar temporarily suspended new leasing of public lands for oil shale research, development and demonstration. We greatly appreciated his move to take a fresh look at the Bush Administration's giveaway to Big Oil. Secretary Salazar is now asking the public...
Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson is travelling to Wyoming later this week. She is being hosted by Governor Dave Freudenthal on a tour of energy production sites, including a natural gas drilling operation in Pinedale. NRDC has worked with local partners for years to help protect...
Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
I grew up not far from a large parcel of undeveloped land, a private estate of 150 acres that had been neglected for years. It was called "The Wilderness." It provided a haven for wildlife, a natural recreation area, and...
Posted by Amy Mall in Curbing Pollution , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Thanks to the dogged persistence of Governor Ritter and his expert staff, Colorado has new oil and gas rules that will help make the industry a better neighbor and position it for a cleaner and stronger energy future. The new rules were...
Posted by Amy Mall in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
Our colleagues at Western Resource Advocates just released a report called "Water on the Rocks" that catalogues all the water rights in Colorado that have been acquired by oil shale interests, or could be used by them, to develop oil shale on...
Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
In a conversation with reporters yesterday, President Obama was asked about oil and gas leasing on federal lands. As reported by the Salt Lake Tribune, the President stated: ""We had an administration that I think was heavily tilted towards opening...
Posted by Amy Mall in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) and the World Resources Institute recently worked together to publish "A Roadmap for a Secure, Low-Carbon Energy Economy." The Roadmap is intended to produce win-win-win recommendations that benefit energy security, our economy, and the climate. The...
Posted by Amy Mall in Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
There is less than a week before President-elect Obama's inauguration. Tomorrow, there will be a Senate hearing on the nominee for the new Secretary of the Interior--Senator Ken Salazar. Nevertheless, despite the many changes in Washington, the Bush administration is staying...
Posted by Amy Mall in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Federal land management agencies do just what their name implies: manage federal lands. They don't own the lands. They manage them on behalf of the owners--the American people. These agencies include the Bureau of Land Management (which manages 258 million...
