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Lake City Police Chief, Dan Schaffer, says the input and questions he received from the public during a community forum held earlier this week will be
Wisconsin tribal organizations are raising new concerns about a proposed reroute of Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline. The Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission, which represents eleven Ojibwe tribes across the Midwest, said the state is not providing a clear picture of how the project will affect surrounding tribal territories and waters, including disruptions to wilderness and the potential for oil spills. John Coleman, environmental section leader for the Commission, said Line 5's draft Environmental Impact Statement does not properly take tribal rights into account. ...
Conservationists are calling on President Joe Biden to make permanent recent steps to protect Chaco Culture National Historical Park from further destruction by the extraction industry. Last month, the administration took temporary action to stop oil and gas drilling for a surrounding 10-mile area. According to Pew Charitable Trusts, over the past few decades, 90% of federal lands surrounding the park have been open to drilling. ...
Conservationists say significant progress was made in 2021 toward the goals of the 30x30 Initiative, to have 30% of the world's land and oceans protected by the end of this decade. The Biden Administration embraced the plan and issued a first-year progress report this week, outlining its accomplishments over the past 12 months. Aaron Weiss, deputy director of the Center for Western Priorities, said while the president was able to move forward on goals set for Utah and other Western states, much of the year was spent just catching up. ...
The City of Lake City and the Lake City Betterment Association are inviting residents to join them in the first week of the new year for a public forum with the