Bernhardt on LWCF: ‘I’m a believer’ Kellie Lunney, E&E News reporter Acting Interior Secretary David Bernhardt today reassured senators concerned about the administration’s paltry fiscal 2020 budget request for the Land and Water Conservation Fund that he would work with them “to make things land in the right place.” The Colorado native praised Congress for […]
Dozens of outdoor recreation business owners across the country are calling on congressional appropriators to put $900 million into the Land and Water Conservation Fund in fiscal 2020. “Outdoor recreation is an $887 billion — and growing — industry,” the group wrote in a lettertoday to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Rep. Betty McCollum (D-Minn.), the […]
Trump to sign LWCF bill after proposing to defund program Kellie Lunney, E&E News reporter Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and House Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) doing an interview about the recently approved public lands package. The president is set to sign it today. @RepRaulGrijalva/Twitter […]
Kellie Lunney, E&E News reporter Published: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 The House voted last night to send public lands legislation to the president. C-SPAN The House last night overwhelmingly passed a massive, bipartisan public lands package, securing well over the two-thirds’ support needed to pass the legislation under suspension. The measure, which the Senate passed 92-8 […]
FEB 26, 2019 MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging bill that revives a popular conservation program, adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness, expands several national parks and creates five new national monuments has won congressional approval. The measure is the largest public lands bill approved by Congress in more than a decade. […]
The House early this week will vote on the broad, bipartisan public lands package that the Senate overwhelmingly passed earlier this month. The “Natural Resources Management Act,” S. 47, is slated for consideration tomorrow under suspension of the rules, according to the House floor schedule for the week of Feb. 25. House leadership typically places on the suspension […]
After lands package, lawmakers prepare for ‘next big lift’ Kellie Lunney, E&E News reporter Published: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 The vote sheet for the Senate’s public lands package, which passed yesterday. Kellie Lunney/E&E News The Senate overwhelmingly passed a broad package last night with more than 110 land and water bills, including language to permanently renew […]
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, the likely next chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said yesterday that he plans to reintroduce legislation to permanently reauthorize the lapsed Land and Water Conservation Fund “as soon as we’re sworn in” in early January. “Absolutely,” said the Arizona Democrat when asked whether LWCF renewal would be a stand-alone bill […]
The following are summaries of several late assessments of the effort to get a LWCF re-authorization into the last minute deliberations of Congress. The outcome is that it WAS NOT authorized.. BUT.. a commitment seems to be made by the Leadership to bring it up again after the first of the year. However, maintaining a […]
