Eight days into Trump's second term, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna filed a bill to add his face to Mount Rushmore. Eighteen months later it has zero cosponsors, zero action, and the engineer who monitored the mountain's rock says it was never physically possible.
A $10 million grant to clear dead trees in the Superior National Forest was frozen by DOGE. Now those woods are burning — and the congressman who cheered DOGE on is pointing at Canada.
Utah ranks 10th of 50 on the measures we track — one of the healthiest states in the country. Its three House Republicans voted for a law KFF projects will leave 77,000 more Utahns uninsured anyway.
On a telephone town hall, Rep. Russ Fulcher fielded questions on his push to transfer Idaho's federal public lands to state control — which conservation groups warn means privatization — and vowed to pass the SAVE America Act voter law.
The Trump administration rewrote the Endangered Species Act so that destroying a species' habitat no longer counts as 'harming' it — opening forests, wetlands and streams to logging, mining and drilling.
Rep. Pete Stauber's resolution to reopen mining near the Boundary Waters cleared the Senate 50-49 — and legal experts warn the maneuver could throw scores of Forest Service plans into jeopardy.
For 50 years, the Endangered Species Act protected the forests, rivers, and wetlands where endangered animals live. The Trump administration just took that protection away — and says states can figure it out on their own.
Trump cut Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante by nearly 3 million acres. Rep. Celeste Maloy stood by his side — and her bill would take away the power a future president would use to restore them.
