I said this to myself as I unwrapped the voluminous Draft Environmental Impact Statement from yesterday’s mail. Here was the document the Bureau of Land Management prepared in order to “analyze” the leasing of 3,700 acres of public lands for a strip coal mine, right on the doorstep of Bryce...

So it remains to be seen: Will the Obama administration now walk the clear path forward to protecting deserving BLM lands? Congress has clearly proven itself incapable of doing so. Yet someone has to, there’s just too much at stake.