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The Arizona Desert Wilderness Act is Waived for Border Wall

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 o...

The Endangered Species Act is Waived for Border Wall

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

The Administrative Procedure Act is Waived for Border Wall

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

The Clean Air Act is Waived for Border Wall

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

The Clean Water Act is Waived for Border Wall

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

NEPA (The National Environmental Policy Act) is Waived for Border Wall

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

Waiving Laws Hurts All of Us

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 (...

Legislation will Undermine Endangered Species Act

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...

Citizens as Environmental Stewards

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

Working to Conserve the Sonoran Desert

FSD board members Beth Polidoro, Jan Schipper, and Andrew Smith are part of an invited panel on conservation of threatened species, with ...

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