Eco-Injustice: Tim DeChristopher Is Convicted

This afternoon, environmental activist Tim DeChristopher was convicted of violating the federal onshore oil and gas leasing reform act and making a false statement when he bid on a federal oil and gas lease in 2008. You can read about it in this piece from TIME’s Jeanette Moses, who was in Salt Lake City covering [...]

An Urban President Hails America’s Great Outdoors

This afternoon, President Obama took time out of what has already become a bruising budget battle to announce the release of a new report on America’s Great Outdoors Initiative. It’s a program the White House launched last year to preserve parks and open space across the country. (Access the report, which gathered the opinion of [...]