Chris D’Angelo

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The Trump Team Is Still Eyeing Hundreds Of Thousands Acres Of Public Land For Housing Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?

"Not one acre" became a rallying cry against Utah Sen. Mike Lee's attempt to sell off millions of acres of public land for housing development.

The Trump admin has a similar proposal, with ~400k on the chopping block.

Will 'not one acre' carry over?
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‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is bad news for Maine clean energy​ + more Maine environmental...

“We’re like blasting our nose off our face" Maine and the OBBA from @chrisdangelo.bsky.social themainemonitor.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

A heat wave hit New England's grid. Clean energy saved the day. On the hottest day this year, behind-the-meter solar panels and a growing network of batteries helped prevent blackouts and saved consumers millions of…

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She Covered Trump’s Interior Chief At Fox News. Now She’s His Flack. Aubrie Spady was recently hired as Interior’s deputy press secretary. Her father is a longtime conservative operative with close ties to the MAGA world.

Aubrie Spady, who covered Interior chief Doug Burgum as a reporter at Fox News, was recently hired as Burgum's deputy press secretary.

Her father is a longtime conservative operative with close ties to the MAGA world.
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“listening”, round 4

Mike Lee Flails As His Public Land Sale Triggers Firestorm The Utah Senator says he is rewriting his controversial bill to narrow the scope of federal land sales. It is unlikely to appease his growing number of critics.

Senators will literally sell off the country's public lands instead of funding affordable social housing in dense, walkable communities with transit

Mike Lee Flails As His Public Land Sale Triggers Firestorm The Utah Senator says he is rewriting his controversial bill to narrow the scope of federal land sales. It is unlikely to appease his growing number of critics.

floundering in an ocean of public outrage
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thank you, Adam!

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Public Land Reporting Has Never Mattered More Please help Public Domain continue to deliver what we all need most to make sense of these fast-moving developments: hard facts and context.

America's public lands—our lands—are at a crossroads.

America's conservation tradition is on the the line.

Help our team at Public Domain continue to deliver what we all need most in this moment: hard facts and context.
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Inside Utah’s PR campaign to seize public lands - High Country News Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.

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Is The Montana Firewall On Public Land Sales Crumbling? A special carveout for Big Sky Country and crickets from the state’s GOP senators over the last week expose cracks in the Montana delegation’s pro-public lands proclamations.

a special carveout for Big Sky Country and crickets from Montana's GOP senators over the last week — has the perceived Montana firewall against a public land sell-off started to crumble?

my latest...
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it puts more lands at risk of potential sale...but the ~3 million acre cap hasn't changed

the amendment (updated text released over the weekend) doesn't authorize additional land sales....it expands the pool of eligible land they can draw from to hit ~3 million acre target

Trump's DOJ takes aim at the Antiquities Act Also: Cutting through the public land sell-off misinformation

In which I try to clear up the confusion about public lands acreage for sale in the Senate's latest budget reconciliation bill. Spoiler: It's not 294 million, but it's still atrocious. open.substack.com/pub/landdesk...

you’ll get no argument from me on that (i run a substack that is almost exclusively focused on aggressively covering threats to the public domain, including Lee’s latest attack)…but accuracy on this is important

also, if Trump rolls back national monuments, those lands would become part of the pool of lands open for potential sale, but a monument rollback wouldn’t simply make 13.5 million acres available for purchase…again, the bill caps lands to be sold ~3 million

hi Heather. The bill does not authorize the sale of 258M acres over 5 years….it mandates the sale of ~3M acres over 5 years…the 258M figure (which keeps changing) is lands that are eligible for potential inclusion

yes, this sets a dangerous precedent…but right now, the cap is 3M acres

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Utah Senator Resurrects Federal Land Sell-Off. This Time It’s A Fire Sale. Republican Sen. Mike Lee’s contribution to the GOP’s “big, beautiful” budget bill would auction off up to 3.2 million acres of the public domain.

Sen. Mike Lee boldly goes where so many Utah Republicans have gone before.

Up to 3.2 million acres of federal public lands — your lands — could be headed to the auction block.

It’s Jason Chaffetz 2.0. Expect a firestorm.

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DOJ Memo Gives Trump A Green Light To Dismantle National Monuments “The power to declare carries with it the power to revoke,” a Trump official wrote in a legal memo.

buckle up
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New Interior Draft Strategic Plan Drops Mention Of Federal Land Reductions The public version of DOI’s plan omits contentious goals contained in a prior leaked version.i goth

NEW: Trump's Interior has released a draft 4-year strategic plan

the new doc omits these contentious goals that were contained in a prior leaked version...
- "release federal holdings"
- "right-size monuments"
- "return heritage lands" to states
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Budget Bill Hands Public Land Near Iconic Minnesota Wilderness To Foreign Mining Company The reconciliation bill overrides federal laws and regulations to benefit one Chilean company — Antofagasta PLC — that wants to mine near the Boundary Waters wilderness area.

make no mistake, the House budget bill still very much includes a public land giveaway

great piece from @jamesctobias.bsky.social today on the provision to hand ~6,000 acres of federal land near Minnesota's iconic Boundary Waters over to a Chilean mining giant
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our team at Public Domain will be joining the folks at Oregon Wild on Wednesday to discuss Public Domain’s work, the current landscape for public lands, waters and wildlife, and much more

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Pro-Trump 2020 “Stop the Count” Activist Lands High-Level Job at Interior Department Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a long-time Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020.

Interior Department appointee Daniel Gustafson is a long-time Trump loyalist who participated in a protest to “stop the count” of Michigan ballots in 2020.

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House Natural Resources Chair’s Oil Stock Purchases Were Unusual For Committee Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) bought stock in a dozen mining, oil and gas giants two months before ramming an industry-friendly budget bill through his committee.

The total value of Congressman Westerman's energy and mineral holdings was between $14,000 and $210,000.
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House Republicans Add Land Sales To Anti-Conservation Budget Bill The committee passed the 11th-hour change after spending a full day batting away Democratic attempts to blunt the GOP’s unprecedented attack on public land protections.

who could have ever seen this coming 🙃
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