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Seven environmental groups filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Land Management over St. George's Northern Corridor Highway project. The plan to pave a 4-lane, 4.5 mile road across land that had been designated as protected habitat for the Mojave desert tortoise was approved late in the Trump administration, in what environmentalists say was a rushed and illegal move. The plaintiffs, led by the local nonprofit Conserve Southwest Utah, take issue with the BLM's assessment of how recent wildfires in the Red Cliffs National Conservation Area may...

BLM seeks teacher for summer Teacher on Public Lands internship PHOENIX – The Bureau of Land Management Arizona State Office is seeking a valley teacher (K-12) for the Teacher on the Public Lands, Hands on the Land summer internship program. The teacher intern will be working remotely at home and periodically at the Pueblo Grande Museum during their summer internship. The internship will last for eight weeks between June and August 2021 for a total of 160 hours at the discretion of the teacher schedule. The teacher will receive a $2,200 professional development stipend, paid tuition for a t...

Save this story for later. Subscribers to The Climate Crisis newsletter received this piece in their in-boxes. Sign up to receive future installments. The blizzard of federal climate initiatives last week (a blizzard that might help allow actual blizzards to persist into the future) is without precedent. For the first time in the thirty-plus years of our awareness of the climate crisis, Washington roused itself to urgent action; veterans of the cautious Obama Administration—the domestic climate adviser Gina McCarthy and the global climate czar John Kerry chief among them—were sudden...