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[Big Kahuna @TheMSeries1]

No amount of words can convey how far behind this country will be in every avenue for a number of years because of this administration and everyone associated with them with stuff like this happening.

[Nateinthewild | Nate Luebbe @nateinthewild]

If u want to defund this ur a little bitch

[Storm™ @dilophosaurid]

This should be making international headlines. Every alarm bell known to mankind should be ringing. This is dangerous and genuinely catastrophic

[Alaska Wilderness League @alaskawild]

40+ years of protection, ZERO public demand, and yet this administration is still pushing to drill the Arctic Refuge anyway.

Make it make sense...

[Amazon Piss Jugs @JeremyWard33]

Seventy eight percent of Americans support the Endangered Species Act. Congress does not represent us y'all

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Here it is, my occasional reminder that balloons won't make it up to grandma in heaven.

But they will return to Earth and choke wildlife.

[Endangered Species Coalition @endangered]

The Endangered Species Act is one of America’s most effective and most popular wildlife laws.

It has helped prevent the extinction of 99% of listed species.

Now Congress is pushing dangerous rollbacks that would weaken protections, sideline science, and put habitat at greater risk.

Thank you to Chris Allieri of the@nycploverproject for his exceptionally well-written op-ed shining a powerful light on what’s at stake.

Tell Congress: defend the ESA. #DefendTheESA #ProtectWildlife

[Alaska Wilderness League @alaskawild]

🚨 BREAKING: Today, the Trump administration announced plans to move forward with a new oil and gas lease sale in the Arctic Refuge, ignoring decades of public opposition, scientific concern, and Indigenous leadership.

Read our full press release: https://t.co/NmxYbTeCve

[Annette Dittert  @annettedittert]

Genuinely do not understand how this is not a bigger story in the US.

[Heather Thomas @HeatherThomasAF]

All the culture war victories will ring hollow when you and your loved ones develop hideous cancers and birth defects. When the only wildlife left on the corpse of America are cockroaches and rats. Trump has removed all life-saving pollution regulations, folks. Now, he's busy killing science so you won't know what's killing you. Fight back.

[primordial soup kitchen @fernbirg]

Louisiana’s new homeless enslavement bill reminded me of Malcolm Alexander. 38 years in Angola for a rape he didn’t commit, picking cotton for 2¢ an hour. When he was exonerated through DNA, a judge denied him any payout for the four decades they wasted. Once he finally…(1/2)

[Matt Little For Congress (MN-02) @LittleCongress]

The U.S. Senate just voted to pollute one of Minnesota’s most beloved places: the Boundary Waters.
Let’s be clear why: more money for billionaires.

Twin Metals and its parent companies are mega-corporations owned by a billionaire family based in Chile. They have a long track record of pollution and environmental devastation, and despite their assurances that this mining is “safe,” decades of research show otherwise.

Twin Metals would bring fewer than 750 jobs to the region, with most of its operations being autonomous and remote, but it risks thousands of jobs in tourism and hospitality. The BWCA is the most visited wilderness in America, attracting almost 150,000 tourists and over $80 million in annual spending to the region.

This won’t bring long-term prosperity. It will cost us millions in healthcare and environmental cleanup.

Mining can be done right, only in the right places. This is the wrong type of mine, in the wrong place.

All watersheds are connected. What happens in one place harms another, and pollution near the BWCA will migrate into the BWCA and the surrounding watershed.

Republicans are in the pockets of big corporations that want to threaten our Minnesota heritage and one of the most pristine environments in the nation.
We must take back the U.S. House and overturn this reckless policy.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

The list below are all unique ancient wilderness and heritage sites that Trump is targeting for mining
They is no going back once they are damaged beyond repair

[Boundary Waters @savethebwca]

🚨 The Senate passed H.J. Res. 140, gutting Boundary Waters protections. This sets a dangerous precedent for public lands nationwide. We’re not done fighting. There are still paths to stop this mine. We'll keep you posted today about what this means and how you can get involved.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters.

The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

The way Republicans passed this bill that prevents future administrations from issuing protections for Superior National Forest, so this pristine land will be exploited in perpetuity unless Congress intervenes to reverse this decision.

The state of Minnesota can still block the Chilean mining corporation from operating in Superior National Forest and protect the Boundary Waters from pollution.

[Friends of the BWCAW @FriendsBWCAW]

This is what we’re fighting for!

Because of you, calls are coming in strong and your voices are being heard in the Senate. It’s making a difference.

Keep going!!! Call 202-224-3121 and tell your Senators to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Trump has stated that he is not only going to mine the nodules, but also hydrothermal vents and metal-rich crusts on seamounts
He is essentially going to nuke the deep sea ocean and nobody cares
China too is spending billions in this war on the deep sea ocean life

[Rep. Betty McCollum @BettyMcCollum04]

We don’t allow mining in Yellowstone.

We don’t allow mining in Glacier.

We don’t allow mining in Yosemite.

We don’t allow mining in Zion.

We don't allow mining in Acadia.

We don't allow mining in Grand Teton.

We shouldn’t allow mining in the Boundary Waters.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The Interior Department's official seal has a buffalo on it.

That detail tells you something about how far Doug Burgum's proposed ban on bison grazing federal land has drifted from the agency's own history and identity. For more than a century, Interior has taken credit for preventing the extinction of the American buffalo. Now it is proposing to evict 950 of them from BLM land they have grazed - without incident, behind stout electric fences - for 20 years.

The legal justification is that bison do not serve "production-oriented purposes." Problem: those words do not appear in the Taylor Grazing Act, the 1934 Dust Bowl-era law governing BLM grazing. Montana state law explicitly defines bison as livestock. No federal grazing law, regulation, or case law contains an "intent standard" for how an animal might be raised in the future - which is the novel argument Interior invented to claim American Prairie's bison are destined to "go wild."

American Prairie has eight times more cattle than buffalo on its land. It runs a slaughterhouse. It ear-tags, inoculates, and manages its herd like a ranch operation. A Kansas State study found sustainably managed bison are twice as effective as cattle at increasing native plant diversity.

Dusty Emond, a fourth-generation cattle rancher who opposed American Prairie for years, now leases land from them and says the buffalo have been good neighbors for 15 years. If cows move in where the bison were evicted, their owners pay BLM grazing rates roughly 90 percent cheaper than private land rates in Montana.

The Coalition of Large Tribes, representing more than 50 tribes and 25,000 buffalo, calls it "DEI for cows."