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2 weeks ago | motherjones.com | Roque Planas

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published on the Substack Public Domain, to which you can subscribe here. Kathleen Sgamma, a longtime oil and gas activist, withdrew her nomination to lead the federal Bureau of Land Management hours before her confirmation hearing Thursday.

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Roque Planas

This story was originally published on the Substack Public Domain, to which you can subscribe here. The agenda for Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission’s March 5 meeting included few controversial issues—mall alterations to grouse hunting regulations, tweaks to the big game draw and, perhaps most contentiously, an update to the state’s wolf reintroduction program. But when general public comment opened, those topics were quickly overshadowed.

1 month ago | motherjones.com | Roque Planas

This story was originally published on the substack Public Domain to which you can subscribe here. The last time Republicans took full control of Washington, DC, back in 2017, the House of Representatives quickly approved a rules change making it easier for Congress to sell off federal public lands.

2 months ago | msn.com | Roque Planas

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2 months ago | huffpost.com | Roque Planas

As Congress debated the Laken Riley Act, a bill mandating stricter detention standards for migrants facing criminal charges, opponents criticized it as a frontal assault on due process and an unfunded mandate of impractical proportions. But the bill may also hand the White House and its Republican allies all the leverage in key budget debates over immigration enforcement.