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The latest original material from Tommy and related authors on current issues and the environment, including cited news content.

A Crescendo of Environmental Destruction Underway in Congress

January 24, 2026

Environmental preservation is in big trouble in the United States, and one of the most tragic components of its slow strangulation is the narrow margins upon which it’s currently facing […]

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Stop the Passage of Senator Mike Lee’s Wilderness Destroying Bill

November 22, 2025

Passage of S 2967 will, in no uncertain terms, mark the end of conservation as we know it in the United States. Not long after Utah anti-Wilderness Senator Mike Lee’s […]

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Environmentalists Must Reiterate Value, Wonder of Wilderness Act

September 1, 2024

Since the Wilderness Act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson 60 years ago this week in 1964, the resultant National Wilderness Preservation System has enabled Americans to secure […]

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An Uncertain Recovery for the Rarest of North American Wolves

November 19, 2023

This episode of Treehuggers International originally aired on January 18, 2009, on KBZT FM 94/9 in San Diego. By Tommy Hough With only about 40 animals left in the wild […]

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Biden Must Resist Weakening Environmental Policies in Standoff

May 18, 2023

The regularity with which the national debt limit is extended is nothing new. Despite how it’s used as a political football by the congressional GOP from time to time – […]

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Demand It: No Rollback of the Endangered Species Act

January 17, 2017

So it’s already comes to this. Perhaps the only place Republicans and too many complacent Democrats expect to see wildlife these days is in zoos or hunting preserves, but it […]

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