Look West: Public lands and energy news from the Center for Western Priorities


** What Biden’s budget could mean for public lands
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Tuesday, March 29, 2022
Greater sage-grouse, Bob Wick, Bureau of Land Management ([link removed])

President Joe Biden proposed a $4 billion increase ([link removed]) in funding for the Interior Department in his 2023 budget request to Congress. Over a quarter ([link removed]) of the $18 billion spending request would go toward climate change programs, including $325 million to reduce wildfire risk and restore burned land.

The budget would also prioritize the president's "America the Beautiful" initiative, including the 30x30 goal of protecting 30 percent of America's lands and waters by the end of the decade. The Interior spending plan includes $25.5 million to create the American Conservation Stewardship Atlas, which would track progress towards the goal.

The president's plan would continue onshore and offshore oil and gas leasing, but it also calls for significant increases in funding for renewable energy development, especially for offshore wind development.

At the Bureau of Land Management, the budget proposes new conservation efforts to protect the greater sage grouse and its habitat, including new land use plans to address declining population and the effects of climate change on the sagebrush steppe.

The head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Shalanda Young, is scheduled to testify before Congress ([link removed]) this week to outline the budget request.
Quick hits


** After golf course closes, neighbors raise money to preserve the open space for nature
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Arizona Republic ([link removed])


** How a Russian uranium ban would threaten Native American tribes
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The Guardian ([link removed])


** Biden proposes spending boost at Interior, EPA
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MarketWatch ([link removed]) | E&E News ([link removed]) | E&E News ([link removed])


** Newsom calls for more aggressive water conservation as drought enters third year
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Los Angeles Times ([link removed])


** Arizona faces a reckoning over water
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Circle of Blue ([link removed])


** Killing wolves to own the libs in Idaho
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The New Yorker ([link removed])


** Indigenous groups and Interior Dept. pushing to remove slur from Utah landmarks
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Fox 13 ([link removed])
Quote of the day
” People just took to it. It was like an organic process. It was private property, but people were like, ‘No, this is a park!’”
—Oro Valley, Arizona homeowner Rosa Dailey
Arizona Republic ([link removed])
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The peregrine falcon is one of nature's swiftest and most beautiful birds of prey. These raptors can dive for a meal at 200 miles per hour, making them the fastest flying birds in the world.

Photo courtesy of Leslie Scopes Anderson

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