PDF version“Are you KIDDING me?? You want to RESCIND the methane rule? Who ARE you?,” wrote one person anonymously to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) this spring. Another commented, “The BLM should be restricting toxic methane emissions, not encouraging them. Honor our laws and the regulations that spring from them.”
Predictably, these points of view dominated the 223,585 public comments submitted to BLM on plans to revise the venting and flaring rule. The comments reflect the deepening lack of understanding around...
Last time the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was updated was 1988, back when George Michael’s Faith topped Billboard’s chart and Die Hard led the box office. Fast forward three decades and momentum is building in Washington to modernize the Act. In the last month a host...
As published in the Denver Post on July 13, 2018. Western Energy Alliance welcomes the Outdoor Industry Association and its Outdoor Retailer show to Denver. The oil and natural gas industry is full of outdoor enthusiasts like myself who love to hike, camp, hunt, fish, paddle, climb, etc. We...
As originally published in the Pueblo Chieftain on July 7, 2018.Why is air traffic increasingly congested over the Great Sand Dunes National Park? Environmentalists are chartering flights to take reporters over the area as an anti-fossil fuel campaign comes to San Luis Valley. At issue is proposed oil and natural gas leasing...
On a recent podcast hosted by acclaimed freestyle skier Lynsey Dyer, the head of the Outdoor Industry Association boasted about talking with groups she disagrees with politically. Amy Roberts, the executive director of the largest trade association...
The Intermountain West Joint Venture (IWJV) is a self-directed, public-private partnership that supports voluntary, proactive conservation across parts of 11 states in the West. One of the IWJV’s more prominent success stories is that it helped build the capacity for the U.S....
The Outdoor Retailer convention, a major outdoor recreation industry event, was relocated from Salt Lake City to Denver this year because of differences with Utah officials over monument designations and other public lands issues.