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“A pause on drilling and fracking is good news, but only if it is followed by a strong plan to permanently ban all dirty energy extraction on public lands,” Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter said Tuesday in a statement responding to Biden’s forthcoming moratorium. “The simple truth,” Hauter added, “is that we need to stop drilling and fracking everywhere, as soon as possible. The federal government has the power—and the moral responsibility—to get off fossil fuels, and doing so on publicly owned land sends a positive message that the Biden administratio...

It isn’t far-fetched to say some Aspen environmentalists cried tears of joy when Joseph Biden replaced Donald Trump as president on Tuesday. The staff at Aspen Center for Environmental Studies couldn’t watch the ceremony together because of the pandemic, but they shared a sentiment. “The mood was elation,” ACES President and CEO Chris Lane said. “We all watched the inauguration and cried.” A photographer takes a picture of the namesake geologic feature in the Bears Ears National Monument in December 2017. Aspen-based Ecoflight helped with the process that got the monument designat...

Climate justice and Indigenous rights advocates commended the decision to put the progressive Native American congresswoman from New Mexico in charge of the department overseeing 500 million acres of federal land—calling the move promising for the responsible development of clean energy infrastructure and for the reversal of the fossil fuel industry’s harmful legacy of extraction and pollution on land belonging to the U.S. public and tribal nations. “This is a big deal,” tweeted Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.). This is a big deal. Historic appointment. A visionary Native woman ...

Support ‘Thirty by thirty’ to save nature Letter Share Growing up, Maine was always a wilderness to me — a place blanketed by trees, populated by moose and a few hardy souls. Later, I learned that was not exactly true (after all, there are deer too). In all seriousness though, visiting the mountains and forests of Maine made me realize that this is where I wanted to be. But things are changing. Across the nation, we are losing our wild places, little chunks of ourselves bit by bit. As environmental devastation encroaches and the impacts of climate change continue to mount, the cost of ...

to mitigate the climate crisis and slow species loss. But today Colorado is losing open land faster than we’re protecting it: Over a half-million acres of natural lands were lost to development since 2001. Fortunately, a coalition of conservation groups has developed a detailed roadmap to preserve 30% of Colorado’s lands (an additional 14 million acres) by 2030. Working with lawmakers, land managers, tribes, and private landowners, the “Colorado Pathways to 30-by-30” proposal utilizes executive orders, federal and state land manager policies, energy-development reforms, and private l...