Carter’s order gave the Council on Environmental Quality, a branch of the White House, the authority to issue binding ...

For more than a century, conservation policy has focused on economic development and wisely using natural resources.

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During the first week of his second term, President Trump issued a slew of executive orders (EOs) and presidential memorandums that directly ...

On his first day in office, President Trump signed an historic number of executive orders, many of which were focused on ...

The National Environmental Policy Act, water and nuclear battles are just a few of the environmental issues on the justices’ docket during the first half of the new year. As Donald Trump gets ...

GOP Congressman Darrell Issa is introducing federal legislation meant to clear up the red tape facing firefighters in ...

President Donald Trump has explicitly targeted the Endangered Species Act as an obstacle to his energy policies and appears ...

WASHINGTON -- The Republican-controlled Senate on Wednesday confirmed Lee Zeldin to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, ...

Current statutes like the Clean Air Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and Endangered Species Act treat fire as a human activity, subject to regulation. This perspective fails to acknowledge ...

Amid backlash from the timber industry and some national forest-adjacent communities, the U.S. Forest Service withdrew its ...