First priority for new Congress is Keystone pipeline. Why?
Here in Pocatello, Idaho, today gas prices fell to $1.99 a gallon. They have been dropping for over a hundred days in a row. In January a year ago, prices were over $3.75 a gallon.
Meanwhile, the new Republican congress is about to get underway. Their […]
Continue Reading →Outcome for halting adverse climate change, protecting the environment, curbing pollution and toxics was very negative-
Republicans scored an across-the-board victory in Tuesday’s mid-term elections. That they did well is not surprising. Mid-term elections are almost always bad for a President’s party, especially in the sixth year of a two-term President. Republicans, however, did even […]
Continue Reading →Importance of fighting to keep the public land public grows with likely Republican Senate win in November-
Even though most of the public opinion in the West does not favor giving the national parks, forests, BLM lands and wildlife refuges to the states, this is a priority among conservative elites in the West. […]
Continue Reading →A case of the guilty investigating the effects of their crime?
When the House Republicans shut down the “non-essential” services of the U.S. government by failing to pass neither a budget, nor a continuing resolution by Oct. 1, the national parks closed. They had no money to operate.
During the shutdown process, the Service evacuated […]
Continue Reading →What’s a good news topic when we have a knife at our throats?
This week ended, maybe for just a couple months. one of the gravest threats in American history. Many who superficially follow politics obviously saw the engineered near default on the public debt of the United States as politics as usual. Others called it “partisan […]
Continue Reading →Farm bill being debated will not permit votes on savage anti-conservation amendments-
The Farm Bill in the Senate originally had over 300 proposed amendments, including several that would be real outdoors wreckers such as deliberately misnamed “Sportsmens Heritage Act“. . A few […]
Continue Reading →State parks have huge economic value but the states are closing them, cutting them, raising fees-
Republican legislators and governors in the interior Western United States are saying we will manage the public lands, the national forest and parks, much better than far off Washington D. C.. Indeed the Framers of the Constitution argued the […]
Continue Reading →Dumb, dumber, and damn dangerous-
Republican’s Climate Solution: Clear-Cut the Rain Forest. By John Collins Rudolf. New York Times.
If he is so stupid he doesn’t know trees suck up carbon dioxide, not emit it, what about his views on the economy, medicine, national […]
Continue Reading →The word “conservation” and conservative are closely related, but there seems no room for conservationists in today’s radicalized Republican Party-
So-called “conservative” Republican activists are bent on tearing down protections for the land, water, wildlife, and human safety from toxic elements. Below the New York Times blog interviews the head of the group Republicans for […]
Continue Reading →In the old Soviet Union, being a scientist was a dangerous thing unless discoveries upheld the Party’s ideology-
Doubt GOP will be put scientists in a gulag. They will just be investigated and badgered out of a job.
GOP plans attacks on the EPA and climate scientists. By Neela Banerjee. Los Angeles Times
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