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Interior Secretary nominee invited to tour Thompson Divide

January 17, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original post ➡️ Sen. John Hickenlooper is inviting the newest Secretary of the Interior nominee to tour Thompson Divide — a 224,713-acre swath of mostly public land between Pitkin, Garfield, and Gunnison counties that for years has been a focal point for prospective gas drilling.Doug Burgum, serving as North Dakota governor from 2016-2024, is incoming ...
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Nuclear waste, tax breaks for coal and oil top Wyoming Legislature’s energy agenda

January 2, 2025 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A dragline stands amidst a cloud of smoke and coal dust after a coal “blast” in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin in northeast Wyoming. Courtesy EcoFlight The 68th Wyoming Legislature — the first body of state lawmakers controlled by a far-right Freedom Caucus — will consider a blockbuster slate of hot-button energy bills ...
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Colorado’s environmental efforts could be in grave peril

December 31, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ 2024 is likely to be hottest year on record. It’s no time for science deniers to be in charge of country’s future.  An aerial view of Assignation Ridge in the Thompson Divide area of Colorado. (Courtesy of EcoFlight) Some people say that the movement toward renewable energy cannot be stopped by a single ...
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Biden administration finalizes Rock Springs Plan without further changes

December 26, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Wyoming’s Red Desert from the sky. EcoFlight Federal officials finalized new land-management guidelines Friday for 3.6 million acres of southwest Wyoming, prescribing future management for beloved landscapes like the Red Desert and the Little Mountain region.The move comes only weeks before President Joe Biden will leave office and only hours before a ...
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Cal Poly and a SLO County town want state water. They may have secured $13 million to get it

December 24, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Los Osos crowds up against the Morro Bay Estuary with Hollister Peak in the background. The Northern Chumash Tribal Council organized an aerial tour of lands bordering the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary on Sept. 18, 2024. The flight was sponsored by EcoFlight, a nonprofit dedicated to appreciation of the environment. David ...
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Sen. Mike Lee: 3 bills that are ‘big wins for Utah’ pass Senate and House

December 22, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Antelope Island Causeway during an EcoFlight around the Great Salt Lake on Tuesday, April 9, 2024. Scott G Winterton, Deseret News Three bills affecting Utah’s infrastructure, the Great Salt Lake and public lands around the state’s parks are on their way to President Joe Biden’s desk after members of Utah’s delegation secured passage ...
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Feds plan update of salmon narrative

December 19, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Army Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation will update 2020 study that rejected dam breaching Original Post ➡️ The Lower Granite Dam in Pomeroy is photographed from an airplane flown by the founder of EcoFlight Bruce Gordon on Friday morning. Jordan Opp/Lewiston Tribune file Two federal agencies that operate dams on the Snake and ...
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Regulations for public lands likely to change under Trump

December 15, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A section of the Thompson Divide is shown. Project 2025, the conservative roadmap for a second Trump presidency organized by The Heritage Foundation, calls for a return to an “energy dominance” approach to federal land and minerals management. Courtesy of EcoFlight “Drill, baby, drill!”President-elect Donald Trump echoed that slogan throughout his successful campaign ...
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Local high school students take to the skies with EcoFlight and the Buddy Program 

December 12, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ Oliver Maness, a Rifle High School senior, enjoys the view during an EcoFlight on Wednesday, Dec. 11.Julianna O’Clair/Post Independent Several Rifle and Glenwood Springs high school students buckled into single-engine planes and held on tight as they took to the skies for an EcoFlight aerial tour around Rifle on Wednesday.The quick jaunts ...
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A Supreme Court Case About a Railway Could Have Widespread Impacts on U.S. Environmental Laws

December 9, 2024 News & Media No Comments
Original Post ➡️ A proposed Utah railway would quadruple the Uinta Basin’s oil production if built. Colorado and environmentalists have fought the project, arguing its impacts would extend far beyond Utah’s own borders. An aerial view of the Uinta Basin oil fields, where a proposed 88-mile railway would connect the oil production of northeastern Utah ...
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