A major insurer is stepping away from risky fossil fuel projects that threaten sacred and pristine Arctic land — Last week, AIG joined a growing list of international insurance companies and banks — including the six largest banks in the United States and Canada’s five largest banks — in declining to help oil and gas companies do business in the Arctic. AIG is the first major U.S. insurance company…

The Biden administration canceled mining leases near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness — a place that our network first helped protect way back in 1978 — In the early 1970s, the U.S. Forest Service planned to allow private logging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of northern Minnesota. One million acres of conifer forests and hundreds of pristine lakes were at risk. In 1972, attorneys with the newly formed Minnesota PIRG took legal action to forestall…

Public comment delivered by Public Lands Campaign Director, Ellen Montgomery — On May 6, 2021, the Biden administration launched its “ America the Beautiful” initiative, a campaign to “conserve and restore” 30 perecent of our country’s lands and waters. Like any good campaign, they plan to have a way to measure progress, and that’s where the proposed American Conservation and Stewardship…

President Biden delivers a major conservation win, a thrill to all who worked on this When traveling in the United States, it’s impossible not to marvel at the immense amount of nature contained within our borders. …

When it comes to making paper products, home products and construction materials, alternatives to using centuries-old trees exist — The destruction of forests is the embodiment of a wastefully short-sighted mentality. We are facing a biodiversity crisis and a climate crisis. We should not be destroying essential habitats and some of our most valuable natural carbon sinks. Of course, we don’t have to. When it comes to making paper…

Find the perfect public land for your weekend activities — National Public Lands Day, which takes place annually on Sept. 25, was launched 27 years ago as an opportunity to celebrate one of the most amazing things about our country — from the biggest park to a local playground, we live in America the Beautiful. …

Old trees growing in North American forests are helping us combat climate change — You may have heard of investors and entrepreneurs promoting new carbon capture technologies to address climate change. For example, Elon Musk earlier this year tweeted: “Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technology.” …

Drilling and development on decades-old lease could be greenlit by the Bureau of Land Management — There’s a reason that Dinosaur National Monument in Utah and Colorado has been protected for over a century. It’s a magical place where nature appears to stand frozen in time. Its sheer cliff faces are studded with dinosaur fossils; its millennia-old rock petroglyphs remain preserved in detail. …

The acclaimed cultural site is critical for biodiversity and worthy of lasting safeguards — This blog was co-authored by Environment America Intern Bergen Schmidt Until the 20th century, when skyscrapers began to scatter the skyline of early American metropolises, the structures created by the Ancestral Puebloan people in Chaco Canyon were the largest buildings in North America. Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwest…