AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File Demonstrators protest against the Biden administration’s approval of the Willow oil-drilling project before a scheduled speech by Biden at the Department of the Interior in Washington, March 21, 2023.

Source: https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/11/10/judge-in-alaska-upholds-biden-administrations-approval-of-the-willow-oil-drilling-project/

Last week alone, the Department of the Interior announced a $62.5 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act to help plan for recovery efforts that will benefit more than 300 species currently listed under the ESA.

Source: https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/11/50-years-endangered-species-act-department-of-interior/

These RMP are to be updated every 10-ish years, but Cheyenne attorney and former Department of the Interior staffer Karen Budd-Falen, the backlog at the BLM is, in some cases, decades deep.

Source: https://www.greeleytribune.com/2023/04/12/opinion-rachel-gabel-proposed-rule-throws-the-land-to-the-wolves/