Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) introduced legislation Wednesday that would expand military use and conservation protections at the Desert National Wildlife Refuge (DNWR), offering up a compromise that could balance both Air Force and environmentalist priorities in one of the few bills expected to pass in a dysfunctional Congress this year.
After years of negotiation between the military, conservationists, tribal nations, and Nevada’s congressional delegation, the House last week passed an expansion of Churchill County’s Fallon Range Training Complex.
Maintaining a balance between preserving the environment and making sure that people have access to the resources they require to survive is difficult. Why Greta Thunberg and Other Climate Activists Are Protesting Wind Farms in Norway… “The scene in downtown Oslo this week is hardly unusual in the era of climate protest: chained to doorways and bundled up in thick blankets,