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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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Gutting the Forest Service Will Do Irreparable Damage

June 19, 2025

By 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 […]

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Matt Counts: Federal Land Management Will Never Recover

February 22, 2025

By 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 […]

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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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Aligned Interest Groups Killed California Rooftop Solar with Malice

January 7, 2024

This 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 […]

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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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Environmental Democrats District 6 Forum

November 5, 2021

Dial 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 […]

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Happy Anniversary to The Wilderness Act

September 3, 2021

As 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 […]

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Environmental Democrats and Sierra Club Join Forces for Border Wall Report

December 27, 2020

By 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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