Over the past year, GOP leaders and the Trump administration have used a law known as the Congressional Review Act to push for coal mining in Montana, oil drilling in Alaska and copper mining in ...

When people and businesses emphatically remind Congress our public lands are not for sale, lawmakers listen.

Coloradans overwhelmingly support public lands at the state, county and municipal levels. The annual Colorado College Conservation in the West Poll indicates 72% of Westerners prefer public land ...

The National Environmental Policy Act requires federal agencies to assess the environmental impacts of major projects. Now, ...

Over the weekend, a proposal that would have required the sale of federal public lands was pulled from Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill. Republican Utah Sen. Mike Lee, who championed the sales ...

Colorado’s senior U.S. senator remembers a time when Congress would pass a broad public lands conservation package with bipartisan support at the end of each year. But those days are becoming rarer, ...

Protecting public lands has become the rallying call this year for groups and individuals across the political spectrum. In June, when Utah’s Sen. Mike Lee proposed selling three million acres of ...