The U.S. Senate's new budget reconciliation bill is a full-scale attack on our environment. It mandates the sale of up to 3.18 million acres of Forest Service and BLM lands across the West—opening the door to private developers, extractive industries, and land speculators under the false guise of “community development.”
Even roadless areas, wildlife corridors, and sacred Indigenous sites are on the chopping block. Tribal Nations are excluded from the land nomination process, while Montana is curiously exempt—raising questions of political favoritism.
But the damage doesn't stop there. The bill also guts the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)—our bedrock environmental law—by letting developers pay to fast-track project approvals and sidestep public oversight and judicial review.
This is a dangerous handout to industry that would sacrifice irreplaceable public lands and silence the voices of local communities.
Email your Senators now. Tell them to oppose this reckless bill and defend our public lands, NEPA, and environmental justice.
