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The latest original material from Tommy and related authors on current issues and the environment, including cited news content.
In October, anti-Wilderness Senator Mike Lee of Utah — the GOP senator whose recent scheme to enact a massive sell-off of federal public lands was pushed back by a coalition […]
Read MoreBy Suzanne Cable The U.S. Forest Service is headed for obsolescence due to recent personnel reductions, proposed budget cuts, and re-organization plans, as the agency’s ability to meet its legislatively-mandated […]
Read MoreBy Matt Counts Fire season is coming. I can’t sit in silence any longer. The short-sighted decision to unfairly fire the best employees in the federal land management agencies will […]
Read MoreSince 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 […]
Read MoreThis article by Ethan Baron originally appeared in the Jan. 7, 2024, edition of the San Jose Mercury News and East Bay Times, albeit under the misnomer headline “Rooftop Solar Industry […]
Read More“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 […]
Read MoreDial in and support Tommy at the first District 6 forum of the campaign season as San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action, the only chartered environmental affinity club in […]
Read MoreAs an environmentalist, the third of September is always a special day for me as it marks the anniversary of one of the most unusual, extraordinary, and far-reaching conservation bills […]
Read MoreBy Tommy Hough and Rick Guerrero San Diego County Democrats for Environmental Action hosted our first Environmental Report on the impacts of the Border Wall this past June, when our […]
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