Last month, the Forest Service held a national public forum on the proposed planning rule in Washington, DC. Natural Resources Law Center director, Mark Squillace, was there and has incorporated the comments and questions raised at the forum in...
Call it the "American Idol" of government efficiency.
The Council on Environmental Quality announced today that it was accepting nominations from the public and federal agencies for projects that will increase the efficiency of environmental reviews conducted under the National...
The U.S. Forest Service often uses the term “land of many uses” to describe the 193 million acres it manages, including many of Utah’s most scenic alpine areas. The draft of a complex planning rule — the first in 29 years — proposes the first substantial changes in the way the agency plans for...
It's a little like changing the shape of the strike zone in baseball, or the allowable deductions on your income tax form. A proposed planning rule for all U.S. Forest Service activity is both deeply wonky and game-changing.
The draft rule spreads fine print from page 8,480 to page 8,528...
With the U.S. Department of Interior considering new wilderness protections for potentially millions of acres of public lands, a coalition of Utah counties filed a lawsuit this week accusing federal officials of overreaching their authority and threatening the state’s economy.
U.S. EPA plans to develop an environmental justice center that would reach out to communities that are traditionally underrepresented in EPA decisionmaking.
Rooted in feedback by the public and EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Justice Community Learning Center, proposed...
Environmental groups say a sweeping new proposal by the Forest Service to guide management on 198 million acres of forests and grasslands fails to provide needed standards to protect native species and gives too much discretion to local forest managers.
The much-anticipated draft Forest Service land use planning rules were released earlier this week. There is much to like about the new draft rules but, as with any rules this important and this complex, there is also cause for concern, says Mark Squillace, director of the Natural Resources Law...
Public comments will be accepted until Jan. 21 on a proposal by the Bureau of Land Management to remove dead trees along some roads that pass through the federal agency’s property in Lewis and Clark, Jefferson and Broadwater counties.
Greg Campbell, the BLM’s project manager, said on...
