The White House’s latest policy pronouncement has American energy producers struggling with the question, “What does Joe want?” After weeks of pushing for more oil and gas production to fight higher gas prices and push back on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the Biden administration has announced it is reinstating National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
The Yavapai Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) is accepting grant proposals from December 13, 2021 through January 21, 2022 from federal agencies, state and local governments, tribal governments, private and nonprofit entities, and landowners for protection, restoration, and enhancement of resource conditions and roads/trail maintenance and obliteration. Projects can be on National Forest System lands, and
The U.S. Forest Service released their final rule to modernize processes for how the agency complies with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). NEPA requires agencies to analyze the environmental impact of proposed actions prior to to making decisions which would impact the environment. In these revisions to NEPA, the Forest Service intends to add
Yavapai County Board of Supervisors were sued today to stop the construction of their jail because of environmental concerns. An emergency motion was filed by activist investigative journalist Bill Williams, a Cronkite Journalism school graduate with decades of reporting experience who lives in Prescott Valley, AZ. A Yavapai County judge will determine a hearing date no
President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will finalize revisions to an environmental review process on infrastructure projects could spur major investment and kick-start a pandemic-trounced economy. Or, his political opponents say, it could weaken vital environmental protections and hasten the destructive effects of climate change. The reality, however, is much more nuanced. And the final
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