Tag: national parks
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advances ‘America the Beautiful Act’...
The bill will fund infrastructure repairs including crumbling park roads, bridges, failing water and wastewater systems, visitor centers, and employee housing.
US National Parks saw record attendance in 2024, but staff were...
NPS staff have been told not to share external communications about the record number of visits.
‘A dose of nature’: Each time you visit a national park,...
Our new research puts a dollar value on the health benefits of visits to national parks within reach of the city of Adelaide in South Australia.
A historic chance to protect America’s free-flowing rivers
“This legislation will be good news for anyone who likes clean drinking water, fish and wildlife habitat, and public lands recreation. It will protect some of the most scenic rivers we have in Oregon.”
Say goodbye to your national parks road trips?
Get your hikes and other recreation in while you can. A new study finds warming temperatures could mean big changes in how we use our public lands.
Great American Outdoors Act passes through Senate
"Passage of the Great American Outdoors Act will move us one step closer to fulfilling the LWCF’s promise and secure the future of our parks and public lands for the next generation."
‘Plastic rain’ is pouring down in national parks
The plastic is trapped in fundamental atmospheric processes and falling all over the world, making plastic rain the new acid rain.
Trump reverses water bottle ban in national parks
The 2011 “Water Bottle Ban” gave national parks the allowance to prohibit the sale of plastic water bottles, which helped reduce park...
Senate passes massive public lands conservation bill
The measure is the largest public lands bill considered by Congress in a decade.
Park rangers return to work to assess ‘irreparable’ damage as government...
"What's happened to our park in the last 34 days is irreparable for the next 200 to 300 years."
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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.