Before 1974, there were no federal standards protecting public drinking water, including groundwater. In the early 1970’s, the EPA...

In 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Arizona Desert Wilderness Act (AZDWA) into law, after it passed 356-45 in the U.S. House...

Extinction is Forever. The extinction of a species obliterates a form of life that represents millions of years of evolution. And Earth...

During the first half of the 20th century, President Franklin Roosevelt allocated 3.3 billion dollars to create a series of agencies (the...

Factory smokestacks belching black air that turned blue skies gray were a normal part of American life until the 1950’s. In 1955, the...

In the 1940’s, residents of Cleveland, Ohio had a saying: ”Anyone who falls into the Cuyahoga River does not drown. He decays.” The...

Many of us can remember a time when when federally-funded projects on public lands were undertaken without much thought about how those...

In 2005, the U.S. Congress passed the Real ID Act, which gave the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) the authority to waive all laws...

The U.S. House of Representatives may soon pass the House Farm Bill (H.R. 2, the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018), which contains a...

Before new government policies are implemented on public lands by Federal government agencies, citizens have had a legal right to comment...