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No time to waste in restoring our national monuments

No time to waste in restoring our national monuments

Visit from Secretary Haaland showed strong support for protecting Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante
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Jesse Prentice-Dunn
Happy Haynes on the unique conservation role of Denver’s mountain and urban parks system

Happy Haynes on the unique conservation role of Denver’s mountain and urban parks system

Highlights from CWP’s “The Landscape” podcast interview with the director of Denver’s Parks and Recreation Department
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Lauren Bogard
The Mountain West’s top oil and gas-producing states had an average of 6 spills per day in 2020

The Mountain West’s top oil and gas-producing states had an average of 6 spills per day in 2020

Data shows decline in number of spills, but skyrocketing methane emissions in New Mexico
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Hannah Rider
The oil industry is doing fine with a pause on oil leasing — just ask their CEOs

The oil industry is doing fine with a pause on oil leasing — just ask their CEOs

There’s just one problem with dire predictions from API and friends: oil executives say they’re nonsense
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Aaron Weiss
It’s time for President Biden to restore our national monuments

It’s time for President Biden to restore our national monuments

Protecting Bears Ears and Grand Staircase is enormously popular, even in Utah
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Jesse Prentice-Dunn
Western voters say “go big” on protecting public lands, conserving nature, and tackling climate…

Western voters say “go big” on protecting public lands, conserving nature, and tackling climate…

Key findings from Colorado College’s 2021 Conservation in the West Poll
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Hannah Rider
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The oil industry’s public lands stockpile

The oil industry’s public lands stockpile

Oil and gas companies are sitting on millions of acres of idle leases that they’ve acquired through a rigged system
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Tyler McIntosh
Sally Jewell on climate change, extremism, and the power of listening

Sally Jewell on climate change, extremism, and the power of listening

Highlights from the latest episode of the Center for Western Priorities’ “The Landscape” podcast
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Lauren Bogard
The sky is not falling on the oil and gas industry

The sky is not falling on the oil and gas industry

Pausing new oil leasing is the first step towards overhauling our broken, rigged, and outdated public lands drilling system
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Jesse Prentice-Dunn
The dismal legacy of Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ agenda

The dismal legacy of Trump’s ‘Energy Dominance’ agenda

After four years of giveaways to the oil industry, opportunity emerges to modernize system for drilling on public lands
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Jesse Prentice-Dunn
David Bernhardt is aiding and abetting seditionists

David Bernhardt is aiding and abetting seditionists

Trump’s Interior Secretary is taking official steps to help the insurrection on his way out of office
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Aaron Weiss
Winning the West: Election 2020

Winning the West: Election 2020

The Center for Western Priorities’ Winning the West: Election 2020 report reveals the growing trend of winning candidates highlighting…
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Western Priorities
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