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Conservative conservation groups are warning against a Trump administration proposal to give away a piece of Yosemite National Park in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains to a private developer.

The Trump administration recently published a proposed rule that rolls back commonsense oil and gas bonding reforms designed to protect taxpayers from bearing the enormous cost of orphaned well cleanup.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is moving ahead with plans to rescind a quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging, road building and other development on national forest lands, drawing the ire of environmentalists nationwide.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins just announced that the U.S. Forest Service has filed a proposed rule to “rescind in its entirety” the national 2001 Roadless Area Conversation Rule.

If you’re a homeowner, drive a car, eat food, or basically just exist, there’s no escaping the worsening trend of sky-high energy prices in the U.S. If you live in Florida, the problem is more acute and especially during the warmer months when air conditioner use is much higher than the national average.

Policy Reversal Could Lead to Taxpayers Being on the Hook for $753 Billion

In 2024, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) updated its oil and gas bonding requirements to more closely reflect the actual plugging and clean-up costs for orphaned wells, thus protecting taxpayers from industry bad actors who skip out on their promise to plug and clean-up their wells once done producing. The Trump Administration just announced that it is rolling back those reforms, thus putting the cost of dealing with orphaned wells back on American taxpayers.

The federal Environmental Protection Agency this month submitted a handful of air pollution waivers from California to Congress, according to Politico; the body can vote to nullify them under the Congressional Review Act.

Every year across our nation hundreds of people die, and tens of thousands are injured in vehicle-wildlife collisions — and the carnage doesn’t end there. The annual death toll for wildlife runs in the millions, not to mention the roughly $10 billion in property damage. It’s a huge problem in most states.

A coal-fired power plant in Indiana will receive millions of dollars from the federal government after the Trump administration on June 4 announced $700 million in subsidies to the U.S. coal industry.

New Coal-Fired Plants in Anchorage, Alaska, and Mt. Storm, West Virginia, Would Total 2.85 GW. They Would Be the First New U.S. Coal Plants to Come Online Since 2013.

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The U.S. Department of Energy on Thursday committed up to $850 million to construct two new coal-fired power plants, modernize more than a dozen other facilities, and bolster coal export capabilities from the West Coast.