La Niña conditions appeared in October, and these conditions are forecasted to stick around through the winter months.
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New bill from Mike Lee would see roads built in borderland wilderness areas in the name of immigration enforcement
Lee’s bill amends the Wilderness Act of 1964 to make exceptions for the Department of Homeland Security to conduct immigration enforcement actions.
Sirens, coordinators and clarity: Teton County talks takeaways from Texas floods
Emergency managers suggest tweaks to Teton’s preparedness in the wake of the deadly disaster.
Some Mountain West attorneys general are fighting to protect a landmark climate finding
The EPA is trying to rescind the “endangerment finding,” which Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico officials say helps protect humans and the environment from unhealthy emissions.
Critics call for climate action as Federal Reserve event kicks off in Jackson Hole
This isn’t the first time critics have cited the omission of climate change at a high-profile Federal Reserve event.
Public Lands, Public Voices: A regional call-in show
The discussion centered on the growing threats facing public lands, including recent attempts to sell off land and efforts to roll back existing protections.
Fossil fuels expansion on federal lands leads to questions on the validity of the Trump administration’s “national energy emergency”
The Trump administration declared a national energy emergency in January, hoping to spur domestic energy and mineral production. Some advocates say the administration is using the declaration as a pretense to bolster the fossil fuel industry.
A public lands sell-off has been yanked from the budget bill, but other threats to public lands remain
Senate Republicans would have mandated the sale of over a million acres of BLM lands across the West, but that proposal was axed late Saturday night. Conservation advocates are celebrating, but say the fight isn’t over.
Supreme Court sides with controversial Uinta Basin railway, limiting federal environmental review
The proposed railroad would transport crude oil from Utah through the Colorado Rockies to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. The Supreme Court has ruled in the railway developers’ favor, after hearing oral arguments in December.
