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President Biden Set To Designate Avi Kwa Ame as National Monument

November 30, 2022 4:37 pm

Today, President Joe Biden pledged to designate Avi Kwa Ame “Spirit Mountain” in southern Nevada as the state’s fourth national monument. “There’s so much more that we’re going to do to protect the treasured tribal lands,” Biden said during the White House Tribal Nations Summit in Washington. “I’m committed to protecting...

$4 Billion Of Drought Funding in Inflation Reduction Act ‘Will Accomplish Nothing’

August 16, 2022 11:40 amAugust 16, 2022 2:54 pm

Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto voted for the Inflation Reduction Act and has made claims that the $4 billion secured in the act will “combat drought in the Western U.S.” Her statement below reads that the $4 billion will fund the Bureau of Reclamation, a federal agency under the U.S....