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Supreme Court should grant cert in timber sale appeal
PLF has filed an amicus brief in support of Scott Timber and the Union, and urged the Supreme Court to take up this case. … ...
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Should unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats have free rein to regulate whatever they please?
PLF argues “no,” in an amicus brief supporting four states, industry groups, and an Indian tribe in their challenge to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) unlawful fracking regulation. It purports to regulate all fracking on federal lands based on the potential impacts of fracking to underground drinking water sources, despite t ...
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Broken promises
Author: Reed Hopper Utah officials are not very happy with the Secretary of Interior's latest land grab. Nor should they be. As reported in the Salt Lake Tribune, Secretary Salazar is recanting on a hard fought settlement agreement and unilaterally making new law. Interior Department Secretary Ken Salazar annou ...
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Must have basic management skills . . .
Author: Daniel Himebaugh Earlier this week, the Government Accountability Office reported that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management participated in multiple transactions involving the illegal sale or purchase of land since 1995. I won't comment on the GAO's audit, but it does remind me of a recent Reason Foundation study that readers o ...