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When public lands become tribal lands again	16.8.2019	High Country News Most Recent
A story of fire, stolen lands, and how hard it is to get the U.S. to follow its own laws.
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When federal lands become tribal lands again	16.8.2019	High Country News Most Recent
A story of fire, stolen lands, and how hard it is to get the U.S. to follow it’s own laws.
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New Endangered Species Act rules open door to looser protections	14.8.2019	High Country News Most Recent
The new implementation guidelines relax habitat protections and favor development.
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‘Cyanide bombs’ use reauthorized to kill wild animals	12.8.2019	High Country News Most Recent
The traps have caused unintentional deaths, but Wildlife Services can continue to employ them to protect livestock and farm crops.
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Land transfer advocate and longtime agency combatant now leads BLM	8.8.2019	High Country News Most Recent
William Perry Pendley has been tasked with overseeing 245 million acres of public lands he’s argued the federal government shouldn’t own.
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A Forest Service low	5.8.2019	Current Issue

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D.C. out of the wonk?	5.8.2019	Current Issue

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Exiling BLM staff	5.8.2019	Current Issue

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Don't ignore the perils of complacent incrementalism	5.8.2019	Energy & Climate \| Greenbiz.com
Companies must be bolder by looking to their sustainability goals, not the past, as a baseline when setting targets.
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6 takeaways from the emissions deal between automakers and California	31.7.2019	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
The industry doesn't want to be caught in the crosshairs in a war between the Golden State and the Environmental Protection Agency.
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Tawanna Black, Valerie Craig and Carrie Freeman: Power, privilege and bias in a circular economy	24.7.2019	Design & Innovation \| GreenBiz.com
This discussion explores how governments, companies and communities in both developed and developing countries can use the creation of circular economies to challenge the status quo, and embed justice and equity in the creation of new policies, better products and services and smarter infrastructure.
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Job Corps cuts hurt communities, at-risk youth, disaster relief	19.6.2019	High Country News Most Recent
Trump administration efforts to privatize and close centers meets bipartisan pushback.
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The rise of wildfire-resilient communities	17.6.2019	High Country News Most Recent
As fire seasons become longer and deadlier, communities turn to urban planning to combat dangers.
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The West’s worst fires aren’t burning in forests	13.6.2019	High Country News Most Recent
Range fires get bigger every year, threatening sagebrush habitat and rural towns.
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Interior Department’s coal reboot ignores tribes and curtails public input	3.6.2019	High Country News Most Recent
The Obama administration wanted to rethink coal leasing; now, Trump is rushing forward.
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Court throws book at BLM over fracking Chaco	3.6.2019	High Country News Most Recent
The agency failed to consider water use.
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Interior Department border deployments are mired in secrecy	31.5.2019	High Country News Most Recent
Law enforcement agents guarding wildlife refuges have been sent to the border, leaving public lands more exposed.
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A glimpse into a border enforcement deployment that’s mired in secrecy	31.5.2019	High Country News Most Recent
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The ‘shenanigans’ behind a federal employee’s decision to blow the whistle	30.5.2019	High Country News Most Recent
Pressured by higher-ups, a Fish and Wildlife field supervisor smoothed the way for a 28,000-home development along a fragile Arizona river.
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See where PFAS pollution has been confirmed in the American West	30.5.2019	High Country News Most Recent
Western states lag behind in both monitoring and regulating the class of ‘forever chemicals.’
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