Take Action Now! A wholesale slaughter of gray wolves is underway in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, and Wisconsin, with the number of wolf killings at the highest level since the early 1900s. Here are just some of the numbers: Last year, more than 495 wolves were killed in Idaho alone, with a staggering 4,500 killed in the state since 2011. The state’s governor recently signed legislation allowing hunters to kill 90 percent of Idaho’s remaining wolves. In a killing frenzy last year, hunters in Wisconsin killed 216 gray wolves in less than 60 hours. In recent months, hunters have shot and killed 23 of Yellowstone National Park’s renowned gray wolves as they roamed just outside the park boundary. In 2020, the most recent year with published numbers, the United State Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) killed 386 Wolves, including pups that were still in their den. Wolves were hastily delisted from the federal Endangered Species Act (ESA) after minimal population targets were met. Those decisions did not take into account the longstanding cultural hostility toward wolves in some states, or the resulting policies that so rapidly and dramatically have wiped out decades of progress. Background Gray wolves, hunted virtually to extinction in the lower 48 states by the early 1900s, were listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in 1974. Their recovery had been a great American conservation success story. However, in 2011, Congress ended wolf protections in the northern Rockies, and in 2020 the Trump administration stripped wolves of their critical ESA protections nationwide. Since then, much of the wolf population gains that were made during decades of ESA protection have...
Oil and gas companies must agree to completely clean up, plug, and fully restore drilling sites once they finish with them prior to drilling on public land. Despite agreeing to this, oil and gas companies continue to abandon that obligation. Leaving taxpayers like you and me left on the hook for as much as $13.7 billion in future clean-up costs. Unfortunately, we are the ones left with the bill. Now is the time to enact proper safeguards that protect taxpayers and to finally make sure that oil and gas companies clean up after themselves. Unless the Biden administration and Congress step up to the plate, this issue will persist and cost you and me billions in clean-up...
The energy market is changing dramatically in ways that play to our nation’s strengths. However, taking full advantage of this new market reality means that we must make the right infrastructure investments. That means additional transmission and distribution infrastructure, smart grid technology, robust security and resilience measures, and policies that foster more U.S. production of key energy technology components. If we do not go all in and really grab this opportunity, our country could lose out big time. China has been investing tons of money and working overtime to corner the market on new energy technology and on the products that drive its expansion in the marketplace. The United States must meet these challenges head on, or else the lion’s share of this new economic driver, and the jobs that go with it, will be...
If you are concerned about how climate change is affecting our country—and the risk it poses to our children’s future, your elected officials in Congress need to hear from you. Conservative lawmakers must be engaged in crafting the solutions, this problem is too important to be ceded to the left. As Ronald Reagan wisely said “…preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it’s common sense.” A little encouragement from you and other fellow conservatives will go a long way towards making it easier for conservative lawmakers to engage constructively and support smart solutions. Please use the quick and easy interface below to send a letter to your representatives in Congress. The pre-written letter can be sent as is, or edited by you for a more personal touch....
In 2017, a provision was inserted into a tax and budget bill to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s coastal plain to oil drilling. When that bill passed Congress and was signed into law by then president Trump, it ended long-standing bi-partisan protections for that vital part of the Refuge. We now have an opportunity to reestablish those protections. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower protected the Arctic Refuge for good reason. This wild corner of Alaska is an American cradle of life, unlike any other place on the planet. It is home to more than 250 species of wildlife, and the one place on earth where birds from every state in the union–and every corner of the world–fly thousands of miles to every summer to hatch and raise their young. In the coming months Congress is set to pass legislation using the exact same reconciliation process that was utilized to ram through that 2017 drilling provision. It is critical that Congress use this opportunity to restore protections for the Refuge. So far, economics, corporate responsibility, and the courts have delayed oil and gas activity, but that will not hold much longer without a legislative reversal. This year’s budget reconciliation bill is our last best chance to stop irrevocable damage to this special and sacred corner of America! Please use the interface below to tell your representatives and senators to restore protections for the Arctic Refuge coastal plain–America’s cradle of life–in this years budget bill. We must keep the Arctic Refuge, and all of the life that depends on it, protected. Background President Eisenhower established the Arctic Refuge in 1960...
