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New rules for oil and gas leasing raise rates energy companies pay to drill on public lands

The Biden administration is proposing new rules for the nation’s oil and gas leasing program to raise costs for energy companies to drill on public lands and strengthen requirements to clean up old wells where drilling is completed or abandoned

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‘A modern lynching song’?: Jason Aldean and the most controversial song in country

Star hits back after being accused of writing promoting violence and division with the video for his new track ‘Try That in a Small Town’, writes Joe Sommerlad

The Independent UK

11 mustangs die in US roundup in Nevada caught on video, showing horses with broken necks

Eleven wild horses have died in the first 10 days of a big mustang roundup in Nevada

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Crow slams Aldean's pro-violence lyrics

"I'm from a small town. Even people in small towns are sick of violence," Crow wrote in a Tuesday tweet

Salon

‘See how far you make it down the road’: Why Jason Aldean’s new music video is so controversial

Country music star hits back after being accused of writing ‘modern lynching song’ and promoting violence and division with the video for his new track ‘Try That in a Small Town’

The Independent UK

8 of the best and most beautiful countries for wild camping

If you love getting away from it all, visit these countries which boast both jaw-dropping scenery and liberal camping laws

Advnture

Western states' budgets, industries rely on federal lands. So does wildlife

Across the West, a vast swath of federal land has been staked out by oil and gas drillers, miners, cattle grazers, loggers, renewable energy developers and outdoor recreationists. Soon, the federal agency that oversees those lands will allow them to be leased for a new purpose: conservation.

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US to reopen review of Nevada geothermal plant near endangered toad while legal battle is on hold

Federal officials have decided to reconsider the 2021 environmental review that cleared the way for construction of a geothermal power plant in Nevada where an endangered toad lives

The Independent UK

Black Lives Matter movement to mark 10 years of activism, renews call to defund the police

The Black Lives Matter movement turns 10 years old on Thursday, marking the day in 2013 that the man who fatally shot Trayvon Martin was acquitted in his death

The Independent UK

A mining company is hunting for lithium — right on the edge of wildlife refuge

LAS VEGAS -- The modern-day gold rush in the race to a greener economy is knocking on the door of a long-protected oasis in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Biden’s land grab would hurt Nevada

The Biden administration’s newest lands plan is bad news for Western states, and it will disproportionately hurt Nevada.

Tribune News Service

Black Lives Matter 10-year anniversary: Why was it founded and what has changed?

The international movement took off after the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012

Evening Standard

Fraud lawsuit against Black Lives Matter foundation dismissed in California

A California judge has dismissed a civil lawsuit that grassroots racial justice activists from around the U.S. brought last summer against a foundation with stewardship of the Black Lives Matter movement’s charitable endowment worth tens of millions of dollars

The Independent UK

Court to hear appeal over Biden-backed Nevada lithium mine opposed by tribes, environmentalists

A U.S. appeals court is considering challenges to a huge lithium mine in Nevada that pits environmentalists and Native Americans against President Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate change

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Roll Call

House Republicans aim to block a BLM land management proposal - Roll Call

A House panel will mark up a bill Wednesday designed to block the BLM from making conservation a land use equivalent to other uses.

The Independent UK

Tribal activists see 'green colonialism' in Nevada mine Biden hails as key to clean energy

A huge lithium mine under construction in northern Nevada is at the center of a dispute over President Joe Biden’s clean energy agenda

Axios

Black Lives Matter street murals are fading away

The return of rush hours and declining support for BLM are both to blame.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Is racism making us too tired to fight it?

June already has its share of monthly observances, including Pride, ALS awareness and African American Music Appreciation. Let me add one more to the list: It should be National Vigilance Month.

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The Week

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 review

Every year since 1769, the Royal Academy has hosted a Summer Exhibition, a “cave-of-wonders-cum-candy-shop-cum-car-boot-sale of works by known academicians and keen members of the public”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. And, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”. This latest iteration, stewarded by watercolourist David Remfry, features…

The Guardian - UK

Rufus Norris to step down as National Theatre leader in spring 2025

Director says past eight years ‘most challenging time in history’ for sector, but audience figures finally back at pre-pandemic levels

Axios

New survey shows support for Black Lives Matter movement lowest in 3 years

The sharp drop in backing for a movement tackling systemic racism comes amid a conservative backlash.

The Independent UK

US judge yanks approval for Idaho mine after finding that federal agency violated environmental laws

A federal judge has yanked the U.S. government's approval for a phosphate mining project in southeastern Idaho

The Independent UK

New Black Lives Matter tax documents show foundation is tightening its belt, has $30M in assets

A national Black Lives Matter nonprofit, whose philanthropic fortunes grew almost overnight during historic racial justice protests three years ago, raised just over $9 million in its last fiscal year, new IRS tax filings show

The Guardian - US

How solar farms took over the California desert: ‘An oasis has become a dead sea’

Residents feel trapped and choked by dust, while experts warn environmental damage is ‘solving one problem by creating others’

Reason

Vivek Ramaswamy Thinks 'Wokeness Is a Cultural Cancer'

Why the businessman launched a long shot campaign for the presidency.

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