Sentences with phrase «on public lands»

We see it with more fracking and gas drilling on our public lands.

I've spent many years working on the public lands and open spaces, enjoying the sound of the wind, birds and other wildlife and the feel of the sun.

It also joined with other state agencies to stop the release or feeding of cats on public lands with wildlife habitat.

It was an outrageous decision, particularly coming from an agency that has fallen over itself to facilitate fossil fuel extraction on public lands.

In general, while standing on public land, it is legal for your eyes to glance onto everything around you.

I get even more excited at the idea of free fruit — picked from wild trees that grow on public land.

It is typically illegal to bury an animal on public lands such as parks.

End excessive restrictions of exploration, development, and production of fossil fuels on public lands as well as private lands.

The project area is located entirely on public lands.

But funding is not, and also what we are asking the women to do in terms of planting trees on public land is so much more demanding.

Similarly, if the injury occurred on public land, there may be the issue of official immunity that could act to prevent a plaintiff from recovery.

I only remember issues with crosses on public land.

The frequencies were simply given to stations for nothing, which was like giving them the right to mine gold on public lands.

Is it unlawful for the government to tolerate the presence of a volunteer - maintained memorial cross honoring veterans on public land?

She is particularly interested in management processes that integrate multiple stakeholders and work across boundaries to solve complex environmental problems on public lands.

It appears there's only one kind of drilling allowed on public lands.

But you can't get there by continuing to support fossil fuel drilling on public lands.

It also wants to prohibit programs that allow protection of cats on any public lands that contain significant wildlife habitat.

For those not following closely Salazar's first month on the job, the «again made clear» referred to there is in reference to the Secretary's halting of oil and natural gas development leases on public lands in Utah, also put in place in the last days of the Bush Administration.

And it may be only the first of many such developments on public lands in the Golden State.

You probably could've guessed it would happen: Back in February the Department of Interior revoke oil and gas exploration leases on public land in Utah, which had been authorized by the Bush administration, on the grounds that they were too close to several national parks and important wilderness areas.

The first is a goal to issue permits for 10 gigawatts of renewable energy projects on public lands by 2020 through the Interior Department — doubling the number of permits already issued.

Geothermal was the first renewable energy that the BLM approved for production on public lands, with 2018 marking four decades since the first approved geothermal project in 1978.

Acting on the heels of President Obama's recent call for federal approval of 10,000 megawatts of renewable energy projects on public lands by 2020, the BLM prohibited mining claims on the 300,000 acres for the next 20 years.

The US Interior Department has released a report identifying the 24 best locations for solar development on public lands across the nation.

And here are just a few other «side effects» of mining on public lands in the West: cyanide spills; wildlife habitat destruction and fish kills caused by poisoned waters; and water pollution caused by acid mine drainage, which leaches potentially toxic heavy metals like lead, copper, and zinc from rocks.

Following shock and uproar and months of protest — residents collected some 1,200 signatures in opposition — the county announced sites on public land in Shawangunk and the Town of Ulster, eliminating potential sites in New Paltz, Marbletown and most importantly Cottekill.

Demanding non-competetive lease arrangements for drilling on public land does not prevent Oil companies from railing against government red tape.

ACC issued the following statement in response to today's Senate vote regarding a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rule to regulate methane venting and flaring from oil and gas operations on public lands.

First, the Associated Press reports that the comment period is being extended by 60 - days for a new rule that will regulate hydraulic fracturing on public lands.

«The reason we are challenging the corridors is to get them fixed,» she says, «We want to designate the right places on public land for transmission.»

The answer, according to members of the commission, is to capture these wild cats and euthanize them — at least the ones living on public lands which the commission owns or controls.

Castillo and Clarke, though highly critical of TNR («This method is not an effective means to control the population of unwanted cats and confirms that the establishment of cat colonies on public lands encourages illegal dumping and creates an attractive nuisance.»

Government subsidization of water and logging on public land encourages wastefulness and discourages conservation.

Most old - growth forest in Massachusetts is located on public lands managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation.

Divisive, sometimes acrimonious, contention over livestock grazing on public lands has smoldered since the listing of salmon and trout species under the Endangered Species Act in the 1990s.

The Obama administration set a goal of approving 20,000 megawatts of renewable power on public lands by 2020 — enough for more than 3 million homes.

It also might result in restrictions on ranchers with permits to graze livestock on public lands where sage - grouse dwell.

But what happens when a recouping pack of gray wolves make a meal of some livestock on public land?

The department oversees solar power plant development, wind farm building, mining and other activities by private companies on vast tracks of federal lands, especially in western United States, and it is viewed as playing an important role in renewable energy development (see BLM Lifts Moratorium on Public Lands for Solar).

When riding on public lands, operators may have one passenger if the ATV's design provides for passengers.

Peter Aengst, who works in Montana with the Wilderness Society, says the methane rule is one of the ways in which the Obama administration tried to modernize energy policy on public lands.

Before 2009, there were no solar farms and only a handful of wind and geothermal plants on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

We are also taking steps to make energy development on public lands easier by reviewing and streamlining our business processes to serve industry and the American public.

The BLM supports an all of the above energy approach, which includes oil and gas, coal, strategic minerals, and renewable energy resources such as wind, geothermal and solar — all of which may be developed on public lands and subject to free markets.

Tom tom - In 1989, foxhole atheist Phil Paulson and others who objected to Christian promotion on public land, filed suit to have the cross removed.

A day's hunting on public lands near any big city was recently likened by one sportsman to the first 48 hours on the beaches of Dunkirk.

Calling them trailblazers in an industry she expects to grow and improve, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell on Monday applauded the developers of two very different solar energy projects built with federal help on public land near Primm.

Orlando Coryell, a La Grange resident who has spent $ 15,000 in a separate suit against the Park District over the sale of Gordon Park, said he was opposed to «private development on public land when the public is denied use of it and the public is denied control and... ownership.»