Ryan Zinke

Former Interior Secretary Zinke lambasts Patagonia for lying about 2017 national monument review

Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke joins the podcast to talk public lands, Patagonia, Yellowstone, and more. Tune in here.

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Gabriella Hoffman

|2022-01-26T23:49:33-05:00January 27th, 2022|Comments Off

A double ban gets a double reversal

The Interior Department reverses an activist-initiated Obama-era ban on farming activities that used a bumblebee as a pretext.

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Paul Driessen

|2018-08-20T11:45:32-04:00August 20th, 2018|Comments Off

Zinke: West’s energy dominance fueling economy and security

"We will be the largest producer in the world on oil and gas. The economy is driven by energy. That’s not just gasoline in your car but manufacturing, as well.”

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CFACT Ed

|2018-07-14T10:32:50-04:00July 14th, 2018|Comments Off

Greens sue Trump to block road serving native tribes

Claims by environmentalists that the road would do “irreparable harm” to birds using the Pacific Flyway are belied by the well-documented experience of migratory birds along far more challenging flyways.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2018-05-21T11:09:19-04:00May 22nd, 2018|Comments Off

Greens try to block road serving native Alaskans by suing Trump Administration

After 30 years, residents of King Cove, Alaska finally won approval for the construction of a road connecting their remote Aleutian fishing village to an all-weather airport. Yet the Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and their ilk would have the world believe that an 11-mile-long, single-lane gravel road will put birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway in peril.

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Bonner Cohen, Ph. D.

|2018-02-28T21:04:46-05:00February 20th, 2018|26 Comments

Forestry regulations ignite more California wildfires

CFACT policy advisor Larry Bell reports on the disastrous mismanagement of America's Western forests by federal officials and the tremendous cost in human and plant and animal life and quality of life these policies have fostered. As Rep. Tom McClintock says, "These laws have not only failed to improve our forest environment, but they are literally killing our forests."

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Larry Bell

|2017-10-30T20:17:51-04:00October 30th, 2017|1 Comment

Undo Obama’s massive land grabs

President Obama infamously said, "I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions." This he did with a vengeance. One of the most egregious areas he wielded his pen was in expanding federal control over wilderness areas with use of the “Antiquities Act.”

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Craig Rucker

|2017-10-13T15:52:13-04:00October 13th, 2017|Comments Off

Trump is about to repeal another Obama-era global warming policy

The Trump administration will issue a proposal to repeal a rule limiting methane emissions from oil and gas operations on federal lands.

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CFACT Ed

|2017-10-04T21:17:14-04:00October 4th, 2017|5 Comments

Court blocks Trump’s bid to dump Obama-era energy rules

The U.S. District Court of Northern California blocked the Department of the Interior’s (DOI) postponement of an Obama-era rule regulating royalties paid by energy companies on federal and tribal lands.

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CFACT Ed

|2017-08-31T17:24:17-04:00August 31st, 2017|Comments Off