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Court ruling safeguards right to access public land via corner crossing

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit affirmed the public’s right to access millions of acres of public land across the West via corner crossing.

Attacks on Chuckwalla and Sáttítla Highlands national monuments would jeopardize countless sacred sites, landscapes, and cultural resources.

Ian Dooley, Attorney, Alaska Office: “This would be the first land exchange under ANILCA that allows for divesting protected lands out of a conservation system unit for the purpose of putting a road through it. That has never happened before.”

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “Executive orders direct other agencies to take action, and they certainly set policy and tone. But they cannot and do not replace requirements of congressionally enacted laws.”

Order seeks to open federal forest system to massive increase in logging

Now is the time to let the administration know we won’t stand for selling America’s public lands to the highest bidding polluter.

Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and other state agencies acted outside their legal authority when they approved Air Products Blue Energy’s plan to construct a carbon dioxide pipeline through the Maurepas Swamp Wildlife Management Area.

Interior secretary seeks plans to implement executive orders that pivot away from climate, toward ‘unleashing energy’

The Trump administration’s agenda to repeal Roadless Rule protections on the Tongass doesn’t square with a popular vision of sustainable local economies dependent on intact forest ecosystems

Nominee leads an oil and gas organization; authored a section of Project 2025

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “We’ve been privileged to follow the lead of 11 Tribal Nations with deep cultural ties to the monument, and we will continue fighting to protect it from uranium mining and other threats so that future generations can benefit from this irreplaceable landscape.”

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “We’re pleased that the court rightly rejected this far-fetched attack on Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni National Monument. We stand ready to defend all national monuments from any future attack by the current president.”

Blaine Miller-McFeeley, Senior Legislative Representative, Policy & Legislation: “This is a bill dressed up as a wildfire prevention bill, but it’s really just a Trojan horse for Republicans to fulfill this lifetime goal of weakening environmental laws and serving industry interest.”

Over 130 groups send a letter to members of Congress opposing the Fix Our Forests Act

Affording protections to critical caribou calving and migration areas in the Western Arctic will help safeguard irreplaceable Arctic ecosystems from fossil fuel development

“We will fight attempts both inside and outside of Congress that threaten our ability to protect special places for the benefit of the American people.”

Heidi McIntosh, Managing Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office: “It was clear from the plaintiff’s arguments that they’re hoping to get the cases to the U.S. Supreme Court quickly and attack the monument designations themselves and perhaps the Antiquities Act itself.”