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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is demanding even more spending cuts at the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). In an email to BLM senior leadership, OMB directed BLM to cut spending on a number of specific programs, including renewable energy and management of cultural resources and wilderness on BLM lands. The email also singled out land acquisitions, including those made using Land and Water Conservation Fund dollars.
The OMB directive applies to spending for the remainder of the current fiscal year, which ends in September. But targeting renewable energy and land acquisitions is consistent with other recent policy actions. The Trump administration has issued a number of executive and secretarial orders intended to put an end to wind and solar development on national public lands, and President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the next fiscal year calls for deep cuts to various land management programs at BLM, including those responsible for national monuments and wildlife habitat.
New mapping tool shows exactly which BLM lands are marked for disposal
A new interactive mapping tool developed by onX and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership shows which parcels the Bureau of Land Management has identified as "suitable for disposal." The mapping tool draws on data from 160 individual resource management plans across 17 Western states, showing a total of nearly 6.1 million acres eligible for sale or disposal.
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The federal government is supporting a mine that supplies the dirtiest, most toxic power plant in the nation and driving up the cost of electricity with expensive coal in the name of a fabricated energy emergency.”
