Tag: policy

A new bill introduced by the Canadian government commits the country to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The bill sets mandatory national five-year targets to cut emissions, starting in 2030, although it...

Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt made a number of changes to how his department will implement the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), including placing more restrictions on the...

The Bureau of Land Management is calling for the oil and gas industry to nominate tracts of land along the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that could...

Implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act is off to a rocky start, with the administration missing a deadline to submit to Congress a list of funding for projects to...

The Senate released its 12 appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2021 last week — only a month before the current continuing resolution is set to expire on Dec. 11, potentially...

Under an agreement finalized last week, Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) populations in the Southwest will receive additional monitoring and conservation measures by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

President Trump signed the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act (S. 3051) into law on Oct. 30, but expressed concern about a provision in the new law that creates a task force...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has removed gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the contiguous United States from the Endangered Species Act. First listed under the ESA in the 1970’s,...

A bipartisan bill introduced last week in the U.S. Senate, the Eliminate, Neutralize and Disrupt (END) Wildlife Trafficking Reauthorization and Improvements Act of 2020 (S. 4848), would permanently authorize the...

The “30 by 30” global initiative — a goal of setting aside at least 30% of all lands and waters by 2030 for conservation has gained new support from a...