Environment

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust Hires Bernhardt Group on Natural Resources

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust has registered with Bernhardt Group LLC to lobby on natural resources issues, marking a new lobbying engagement for the hotel...

Government Operations

Conservation Legacy Ends Lobbying Relationship With EQVstrategic

Conservation Legacy, one of the nation's largest conservation service corps networks, terminated its lobbying relationship with EQVstrategic LLC as of...

Environment

Rainmaker Technology Hires Brownstein Hyatt on Environmental Issues

Rainmaker Technology Corp. registered as a new client with lobbying firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck LLP in 2026, marking the company's entry into...

Government Operations

Fish and Wildlife Service Faces 20% Budget Cut in Heated Hearing

The Trump administration's FY2027 budget request would slash the Fish and Wildlife Service budget by 20 percent, eliminating funding for critical...

Congress

Colorado River Basin's 2026 Crisis

Why it matters: The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee convened Wednesday for an oversight hearing on the Colorado River Basin's post-2026...

Environment

Norfolk Hires Greenberg Traurig for Budget, Environmental Lobbying

The City of Norfolk, Va. has filed a new lobbying registration with Greenberg Traurig LLP, entering the federal lobbying arena on budget and environmental...

Environment

Congress Attempts to Fix Wildfire Prevention Delays

A new Congressional Research Service report lands at a moment when the stakes for getting federal land policy right on wildfire could hardly be higher. The...

Legislation

E15 Ethanol Fuel Blocked Despite Lack of Scientific Justification

A decades-old regulatory quirk is forcing Congress and the White House into an uncomfortable alliance — and a fight with the oil refining industry — over...

Legislation

Sea Lion and Salmon Laws Clash in Conservation Dilemma

A Congressional Research Service report updated June 5, 2026 puts a sharp point on one of the Pacific Northwest's most intractable wildlife conflicts: sea...

Environment

Congress Pushes to Lock in Vehicle Emissions Rollbacks

Why it matters: The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment held a Clean Air Act hearing on June 3, examining ten bills that would roll back...

Public Lands

Upcoming Debate on Marine Bills Include Fishing, Otter Trade

Four bills with consequences stretching from Alaskan Native villages to the Gulf Coast to disputed Pacific waters are headed for a House Natural Resources...

Government Operations

Federal Intervention Looms as Colorado River Crisis Deepens

The Colorado River is in crisis, and Washington is running out of time to act. Just five days before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's...

Environment

The Great American Outdoors Act 250

The House Natural Resources Committee is heading to Hot Springs, Arkansas on June 12 for a legislative field hearing on a discussion draft of the Great...

Environment

House Passes Marine Conservation Bill Despite Trump's NOAA Cuts

The House passed the Northwest Straits Marine Conservation Initiative Reauthorization Act on a 374-49 vote, reauthorizing a federally backed program that...

Congress

Committee Reviews Wildlife Conservation Cuts

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee is set to examine a budget proposal that, if enacted, would fundamentally reshape the federal government's...

Congress

Senate Block Mercury Pollution Protections

The S.J.Res. 188 vote was over before it started. On a strict 53–46 party-line tally, the Senate blocked a Democratic attempt to use the Congressional...

Congress

EPA's Science Independence Under Congressional Fire

The Trump administration's dismantling of the EPA's Office of Research and Development — the agency's independent science arm — is coming under direct...