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Withdrawing plans to allow development of oil shale and tar sands on 800,000 acres of federal public lands in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

The fossil fuel industry has already started to change the face of the Western Arctic — on state and private land near Nuiqsut and, increasingly, in the largely still untouched federal public land in the Reserve — with oil and gas drilling, to the detriment of public health in Ahtuangaruak's community.

Not exact matches

That's what many ranchers and sympathizers opposing federal control of public lands in the West concluded after the armed occupation of a national wildlife refuge in Oregon.

Cuts landing everywhere, massive workload increases, discrimination, disrespect, workplace bullying and harassment (one in five federal public workers report being harassed at work, nearly two - thirds of them by their managers)-- the causes are many.

Asharoken, Long Island has scheduled a public hearing Jan. 4 to give residents a final chance to voice their opinions on a beach restoration project that would bring millions in federal funds to the village but require many property owners to allow public access on their private land.

The omnibus extraordinary session package also provides a financial incentives to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

The FNC added, «We demand that the investigations into it must be made public as promised by the police authorities, while something very urgent and painstaking measures must be done by the Federal Government to quickly address the conspicuous concerns in the land.

The final legislation renames the Tappan Zee Bridge after former Gov. Mario Cuomo; provides a financial incentive package to entice Vernon Downs racino and harness track to remain open; offers $ 55 million in relief for Lake Ontario communities ravaged by flooding; tweaks a law to allow New York City first responders to receive an accidental disability pensions even if they don't receive a federal Social Security disability pension; and creates a 250 - acre forest land bank to allow for certain public utility projects under a constitutional amendment.

• According to a survey of members of the Association of American Universities and the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities, Jeffrey Mervis wrote on Monday, federal government sequestration has led to fewer student positions (31 % of respondents), a reduction in temporary or part - time staff positions (30 % of respnodents), and a decline in postdoctoral fellows (24 % of respondents).

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, in collaboration with the Association of American Universities (AAU) and Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU), have hosted meetings...

Last week, federal agents swooped in on 23 of the 24 people indicted on charges of stealing archaeological artifacts from public land and Indian reservations in the Southwest.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollpublic notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollPublic Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

CURWOOD: So, if I hear you correctly, Pat, you're saying perhaps the strong if not the strongest strategy here would be to be suing the federal government for selling off fossil fuels from public lands and waters at a time when the government knows that the combustion of those fuels is in the process of destroying the planet?

As part of the plan, the BLM, which controls millions of acres of public lands with the Forest Service, will regulate miners, energy developers and ranchers who hold federal leases to work in sage brush wilderness in 10 states.

March 25, 2009 — In passing the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, Congress approved a demonstration project involving federal compensation for livestock losses to wolves, as well as federal funding for nonlethal activities to reduce the risk of livestock losses to wolves.

The Obama administration did indeed place a federal moratorium on all new coal mining leases on public lands across the country in June — but but only out of concern from environmentalists, Congress, and the Department of the Interior that coal companies have spent 30 years cheating taxpayers out of $ 30 billion in royalties.

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January 5, 2017 • Wyoming has become a flash point in the debate over whether federal public lands should be turned over to states.

The 41 day anti-federal government occupation capped decades of disputes over how federal public lands are managed in the West.

Cartel Land is keen to show how information and rumors travel through the militia and the towns they come to control: photos of beheaded citizens pop up on smartphones; at impromptu public forums held in town squares, citizens both praise and condemn Mireles's usurping of federal authority; his soldiers, meanwhile, pick up suspected criminals on hunches, and won't relent without a confession.

Federal involvement began more than 225 years ago, even before George Washington was president, when Congress passed two laws — the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 — to create and maintain public schools in the expanding United States.

Public schools across the country rely upon federal investments for key education programs such as Title I grants for disadvantaged students, special education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and also programs such as Impact Aid, which provides support to school districts educating students whose parents are enlisted in our Armed Forces and those who reside on tribal trust lands.

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NAEO is a federal compliment of an existing state law already in place in Arizona where children living on tribal lands and attending state - funded public schools are automatically eligible to receive an ESA.

It is announced that the state of Utah will spend several millions of dollars suing the U.S. federal government in hopes of having 32 million acres of National Forests and BLM land — our public lands — deeded over to the counties and state of Utah.

Impact Aid provides critical funding to over 1,200 public school districts nationwide that educate military children, children residing on Indian lands, children living in federal low - rent housing facilities, children of civilian employees of the federal government, and the children in school districts with significant tax - exempt federal property.

At issue is legislation signed by Herbert in March that demands the federal government relinquish control of public lands by 2014, which sets up a potential legal battle over nearly 4,700 square miles.

Airport development means --(1) Any work involved in constructing, improving, or repairing a public airport or portion thereof, including the removal, lowering, relocation, and marking and lighting of airport hazards, and including navigation aids used by aircraft landing at, or taking off from, a public airport, and including safety equipment required by rule or regulation for certification of the airport under section 612 of the Federal Aviation Act of 1958, and security equipment required of the sponsor by the Secretary by rule or regulation for the safety and security of persons and property on the airport, and including snow removal equipment, and including the purchase of noise suppressing equipment, the construction of physical barriers, and landscaping for the purpose of diminishing the effect of aircraft noise on any area adjacent to a public airport; (2) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein, or of any easement through or other interest in airspace, including land for future airport development, which is necessary to permit any such work or to remove or mitigate or prevent or limit the establishment of, airport hazards; and (3) Any acquisition of land or of any interest therein necessary to insure that such land is used only for purposes which are compatible with the noise levels of the operation of a public airport.

«By taking cars off the road and reducing harmful emissions and pollutants in our nation's most natural and pristine settings, we're helping Americans and visitors from around the world enjoy these public lands as they were meant to be enjoyed,» said Federal Transit Administrator Peter Rogoff.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $ 5 million in competitive grant funds to enhance public transit service for American Indians, Alaska natives and other residents on rural tribal lands.

Residents are expected to donate one piece of creative work to the hosting federal agency, and to give one public presentation, such as a reading or a workshop, within six months of the residency that in some way connects a community to its public lands.

In fact, no public land in Texas is owned by the federal government; instead, it's owned by the state, which must approve any action the federal government wishes to take on Texas lanIn fact, no public land in Texas is owned by the federal government; instead, it's owned by the state, which must approve any action the federal government wishes to take on Texas lanin Texas is owned by the federal government; instead, it's owned by the state, which must approve any action the federal government wishes to take on Texas land.

Located next door to the King Salmon Airport, the King Salmon Visitor Center provides information on the many federal public lands of Southwest Alaska, particularly those in the Bristol Bay area.

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Even in Germany, renowned for its serious approach to cultural matters and where public spending on the arts is roughly four times the British level, cuts in federal and land budgets are being introduced.

«I would argue that this project, on a river that traverses both red and blue states, could draw attention to the importance of federal land management and stewardship of the environment,» said Tom Eccles, the executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and former director of the Public Art Fund in New York.

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

«In Nevada, federal authorities have ceded a 200 - square mile militarized zone on national park and range lands as a staging ground for further operations to challenge the legitimacy of public ownership.»

There are now thousands of acres of public land «where the federal government doesn't dare tread, because of the threat of violence,» says Heidi Beirich of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a Birmingham, Alabama - based nonprofit that tracks extremist groups in America.

The problem with this concept is that even if oil and gas prices are likely to increase in the future, thus increasing federal revenues from oil and gas leases on public lands, any such revenue coming from areas already open to production will be considered by CBO as already included in the baseline revenue picture.

The Obama administration took a step in the right direction when it announced a major overhaul of the federal coal program in 2016, a change that includes a moratorium on new coal leases on public land.

-- Based on the scientific review, the agencies may, by rule, modify the definition of «renewable biomass» from Federal lands in sections 211 (o)(1)(I) and 700 of the Clean Air Act and section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 as appropriate to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

-- After reviewing the report required by subsection (a), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, in concurrence with the Secretary of Agriculture, may, by regulation and after public notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollpublic notice and comment, modify the non-Federal lands portion of the definition of «renewable biomass» in section 610 of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollPublic Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 in order to advance the goals of increasing America's energy independence, protecting the environment, and reducing global warming pollution.

The pipeline also crosses recreation, federal public lands, state parks and forests where thousands of workers are employed in the tourism sector.

«Congress is expected to further cut funding for conservation programs and land agencies, already sitting at less than 1 percent of the federal budget,» writes Brad Brooks, the associate director of the Idaho office of the Wilderness Society, a nonprofit conservation group dedicated to protecting natural areas and federal public lands, in a recent AlterNet article.

Clinton's said he plan would incentivize investment in renewables by increasing the number of government grants for clean energy, extending federal clean energy tax incentives and expanding renewable energy on public lands.

Even so, the pace of federal public lands giveaways to the oil and gas industry is drastically increasing in 2018.

-- In determining whether to authorize a project on Federal land, the Secretary concerned shall take into account the framework for geological carbon sequestration on public land prepared in accordance with section 714 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110 — 140; 121 StaIn determining whether to authorize a project on Federal land, the Secretary concerned shall take into account the framework for geological carbon sequestration on public land prepared in accordance with section 714 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110 — 140; 121public land prepared in accordance with section 714 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110 — 140; 121 Stain accordance with section 714 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (Public Law 110 — 140; 121Public Law 110 — 140; 121 Stat.

A federal court today overturned a coal mine expansion and eliminated a loophole permitting road construction for coal mining in western Colorado's roadless public forest lands.

Considering the oil, gas, and coal boom that the Trump Administration hopes to unleash on federal lands and in offshore waters, you might expect stepped - up protection for the American public and the environment.