PUBLIC LANDS
Advocates ramp up pressure for permanent LWCF funds
Conservation advocates today slammed congressional lawmakers over the slow pace of legislation to establish permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Jennifer Yachnin
Reporter
Jennifer writes about public lands issues, including access, development and the state land transfer movement. She previously covered campaigns and elections at E&E. Before joining E&E News in 2011, she spent 10 years at the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call where she worked as an investigative reporter writing about ethics, campaign finance and congressional wealth. Her work has also appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Detroit News and on National Public Radio. She has appeared as an expert guest on outlets including C-SPAN, NPR and local television. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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PUBLIC LANDS
BLM to transfer nearly 18K acres to Colo.
The Interior Department is preparing to transfer nearly 18,000 acres of public lands to Colorado next year in the agency's latest effort to settle outstanding acreage debts to a handful of Western states.
BORDER WALL
Butterfly group says work is causing 'substantial impact'
The North American Butterfly Association today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to reconsider its lawsuit challenging President Trump's border wall, arguing that U.S. Border Patrol activities on its lands amount to a seizure of its 100-acre wildlife preserve along the Rio Grande in Texas.
OBITUARY
William Ruckelshaus, twice EPA chief, dies
William D. Ruckelshaus, a member of the Nixon administration who is considered the "father" of EPA, died today.
NATIONAL MONUMENTS
Court split sets up showdown over Cascade-Siskiyou's future
A federal judge has ruled that President Obama overreached when he expanded the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument and he did not have the authority to limit timber harvesting on 40,000 acres of former railroad lands — splitting from another court's prior ruling on the matter.