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Public Lands Watch: Forest Service proposes NEPA regulatory revisions

Forest Service proposes revisions to NEPA regulations to increase exemptions for logging and other projects

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) has long been a lightning rod for debates over public land management. NEPA requires federal agencies to fully analyze and publicly disclose the environmental impacts of proposed major federal actions that significantly affect the environment, including analysis of a reasonable range of alternatives and a response to public comments. …

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Public Lands Watch: Fire Appropriations and 2018 Omnibus

2018 Omnibus bill expands future funding for fire suppression efforts, and streamlines environmental review for some timber projects

Tom Schumann helped draft this blog post. The 2018 budget act signed into law on March 23, 2018 will increase the funding available for wildfire suppression, enabling the Forest Service and Interior Department to respond to ever more severe fires while easing the strain on their overall budgets. Before the new law, Congress limited appropriations …

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Public Lands Watch: Resilient Federal Forests Act

Bill to reduce environmental protections for timber management on federal lands passes House

The Resilient Federal Forests Act (RFFA), H.R. 2936—which would curb environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for a variety of forest management activities on National Forest and BLM lands—passed the House November 1. (We previously wrote about a version of this bill in committee here.) NEPA requires agencies to consider whether proposed …

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Air quality and wildfire

We may need to burn more to get less smoke

One of the impacts of California’s difficult fire season has been air pollution. Fires produce smoke. Large wildfires produce a lot of smoke. And large wildfires in the southern Sierra Nevada produce smoke in the southern Central Valley – the part of the United States that already has some of the worst air quality in …

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The Future of Fire Policy

Climate change will require reconsideration of how we manage fire

It has been a brutal fire season here in California. It’s been brutal in part because of a historically bad drought. But unfortunately, the end of the drought (when it comes) will not be the end of our fire problems. Those fire problems are the result of long-term, human-caused trends that will only continue: climate …

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Crisis at DOJ’s Environment & Natural Resources Division

Guest contributors Sommer Engels, Andrew Mergen, and Justin Pidot write that dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump Administration.

Trump’s War Against NEPA

One of Trump’s Executive Orders Heralds a Revolution in NEPA Practice

Surfing the Wave of Executive Orders

As an old song says, “Mama Miá, here we go again!”

What is a species?

Revisiting a key case in the history of the ESA

Huge Snub for Big Oil at the Supreme Court

Oil companies failed to persuade the justices to shield them from the growing number of state lawsuits seeking damages for the harms caused by climate change.

Project 2025 Envisions Congressional Override of Biden Era Regulations

Paper #2 in Monograph Series

Trump Goes to War Against Environmental Justice

Apparently it’s “woke” to worry about excessive pollution in minority communities.

Climate Takeaways from Newsom’s Budget Proposal

The Governor’s proposed 2025-26 budget would tap the recent voter-approved climate bond and seek new emergency funds.

Did California Policies Make the LA Fires Worse?

California’s environmental and climate regulations did not make the climate-fueled Palisades and Eaton fires more destructive or harder to fight. Here’s why.

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Forest Service proposes revisions to NEPA regulations to increase exemptions for logging and other projects

2018 Omnibus bill expands future funding for fire suppression efforts, and streamlines environmental review for some timber projects

Bill to reduce environmental protections for timber management on federal lands passes House

We may need to burn more to get less smoke

Climate change will require reconsideration of how we manage fire

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Climate policy is changing rapidly. Stay in the loop with expert analysis via email Monday - Friday.

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Would elimination of civil service protection increase government efficiency? Probably not.

We have weathered past threats to energy security through democratic processes, not by executive fiat.

AKA it should be much easier to put in a heat pump water heater.

Flooding the zone has short-term benefits but possible long-term costs.

Trump and House Republicans are trying to ‘flood the zone’ when it comes to wrongly blaming California environmental regulations for the LA fires.

Guest contributors Sommer Engels, Andrew Mergen, and Justin Pidot write that dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump Administration.

Why is the Trump administration kneecapping the U.S. offshore wind industry while China becomes a global giant?

The effect of tariffs on energy markets is complex, and a lot depends on the details.

Here are five ways states can save climate policy despite Trump.

Paper #2 in Monograph Series

Guest contributors Sommer Engels, Andrew Mergen, and Justin Pidot write that dismantling ENRD will be disastrous for future administrations, the American people, and even for the Trump Administration.

One of Trump’s Executive Orders Heralds a Revolution in NEPA Practice

As an old song says, “Mama Miá, here we go again!”

Revisiting a key case in the history of the ESA

Oil companies failed to persuade the justices to shield them from the growing number of state lawsuits seeking damages for the harms caused by climate change.

Paper #2 in Monograph Series

Apparently it’s “woke” to worry about excessive pollution in minority communities.

The Governor’s proposed 2025-26 budget would tap the recent voter-approved climate bond and seek new emergency funds.

California’s environmental and climate regulations did not make the climate-fueled Palisades and Eaton fires more destructive or harder to fight. Here’s why.

It’s supposed to be cost-saving, but the savings are trivial on the scale of the federal budget.