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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
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...continued→
