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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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Rachel Wade: Losing My Job Means Losing My Home

February 18, 2025

By Rachel Wade I’m an extremely private person, but due to recent events I wanted to give a face to the mass purge of federal employees that has been happening […]

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The Antiquities Act and Great Spaces of Our Nation

June 6, 2023

“The time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil, and the gas are exhausted, when the soils […]

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Drilling on Carrizo Plain and the Environmental Agony of the Trump Administration

June 19, 2020

Maxim One:  Everything Trump comes in contact with, good or bad, innocent or guilty, dies an early death in reputation, career, conscience, or lifespan. Maxim Two:  If Trump touches or […]

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