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Top GOP legislative lawmakers prepare to fight Biden administration, trying to help Utah
Preparing for their own fight with the Biden administration over a new national monument in Arizona, the top legislative Republicans now are attempting to help the state of Utah in its own battle against two other monuments.
Planned Senate bill would counteract Mining Law ruling
A Democratic U.S. senator is looking to Congress to ensure mining companies can use established mineral claims to dump waste on neighboring federal lands as they always had before a federal appeals court adopted a stricter interpretation of a 150-year-old law.
24 states get $560M for cleanup of wells
The Interior Department is giving Arizona and 23 other states a total of $560 million to start cleaning high-priority derelict oil and gas wells abandoned on state and private land, the department said August 25.
Backward land legislation infringes on personal property rights, shortsighted
Rep. Mark Finchem and Sen. Sonny Borrelli have taken a backward and myopic view of our shared public lands, while at the same time directly infringing on the rights of private landowners. That’s no small accomplishment.
Bills would prohibit landowners from transferring private property to feds
Fearing an eroding tax base, two Republican legislators are leading efforts to block private individuals from transferring property to the federal government.
Idea of Western states taking over federal land is back in vogue
Back in the mid-1990s, Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen was a rebel. A Sagebrush Rebel. Long before she was a state lawmaker, Allen was pushing back against environmentalists and the federal government as part of a long-standing movement to force the federal government to turn over federally-managed lands to the Western states.
Utah lawmaker says Arizona should take mismanaged federal lands
Western states need to band together to get the federal government to relinquish control of lands in Arizona and elsewhere, a Utah legislator told a group of Arizona lawmakers Wednesday morning.
Lawmakers plan to resurrect bills that didn’t pass in previous years
Neither the governor’s veto, nor a ballot measure’s resounding defeat at the polls will stop Sen. Al Melvin from reviving a plan to convert federal land to state land.
State lawmakers demanding feds handover land
Another "sagebrush rebellion" is brewing with Arizona possibly laying claim to 25 million acres of federal land. Supporters of the modern day land grab say federal agencies have mismanaged the land and blocked access to natural resources while depriving the state of jobs and revenue from businesses ready to develop those resources.
