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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Mar 3

🚨🚨🚨really excited to introduce Public Domain — an investigative, independent newsdesk I've launched w/ @jamesctobias.bsky.social & Roque Planas

we will be digging deep into enviro agencies and the public lands, wildlife and natural resources they manage

join us!
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Investigative reporting on public lands, wildlife and government. Click to read Public Domain, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Paige Vega @paigeblank.bsky.social · 6d

Wildfires aren’t just getting bigger. They’re getting massively more expensive.

A new study shows the most destructive fires are happening more often, fueled by climate change, urban sprawl, and decades of fire suppression.

@umairfan.bsky.social for @vox.com: www.vox.com/climate/4635...

The surging price tag of wildfires, in one chart

Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Sep 5

House Dems are demanding DOI turn over DOGE operative Hassen's financial/ethics docs

Docs that Public Domain obtained raise Qs about whether or when Hassen divested of energy-related holdings

Hassen was replaced in his role while we were reporting this story
www.publicdomain.media/p/tyler-hass...

Democratic Lawmakers Demand Interior DOGE Leader’s Financial, Ethics Docs

Documents obtained by Public Domain raise ethics questions about former oil executive Tyler Hassen's investments.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Aug 21

scoop from @jamesctobias.bsky.social: Internal docs obtained by Public Domain show that the federal government did not conduct an ESA or NEPA review for the Florida migrant detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz”
www.publicdomain.media/p/scoop-alli...

Feds Failed To Conduct Environmental Review Of 'Alligator Alcatraz', Internal Documents Show

The controversial migrant detention facility in Florida is being sued for violating federal environmental protections and harming endangered species

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Aug 7

The Trump administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law.
www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-admi...

The Trump Team’s Incoherence On Migratory Bird Rules

The administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Aug 6

NEW: Republican-backed wolf-culling campaigns may wind up triggering federal protections again.

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Denial Of Gray Wolf Protections Violated Endangered Species Act, Judge Rules

Republican-backed wolf-culling campaigns may wind up triggering federal protections again.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jul 28

excited for this one! tune in at 10 am!

Andy Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ revkin.substack.com @revkin.bsky.social · Jul 28

10 am Eastern join me LIVE with questions for journalists running the Public Domain Substack on threats to public lands and the agencies tasked with managing them for all Americians.
Viewing links (no signup): revkin.substack.com/p/live-today...

Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jul 23

"Not one acre" became a rallying cry against Utah Sen. Mike Lee's attempt to sell off millions of acres of public land for housing development.

The Trump admin has a similar proposal, with ~400k on the chopping block.

Will 'not one acre' carry over?
www.publicdomain.media/p/trump-team...

The Trump Team Is Still Eyeing Hundreds Of Thousands Acres Of Public Land For Housing

Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?

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Taylor Kate Brown @taylorkatebrown.bsky.social · Jul 9

“We’re like blasting our nose off our face" Maine and the OBBA from @chrisdangelo.bsky.social themainemonitor.bluelena.io/index.php?ac...

‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ is bad news for Maine clean energy

+ more Maine environmental...

themainemonitor.bluelena.io

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · Jul 8

Renewables and storage come to rescue in New England heat wave www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

A heat wave hit New England's grid. Clean energy saved the day.

On the hottest day this year, behind-the-meter solar panels and a growing network of batteries helped prevent blackouts and saved consumers millions of…

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jul 8

Aubrie Spady, who covered Interior chief Doug Burgum as a reporter at Fox News, was recently hired as Burgum's deputy press secretary.

Her father is a longtime conservative operative with close ties to the MAGA world.
www.publicdomain.media/p/aubrie-spa...

She Covered Trump’s Interior Chief At Fox News. Now She’s His Flack.

Aubrie Spady was recently hired as Interior’s deputy press secretary. Her father is a longtime conservative operative with close ties to the MAGA world.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 28

“listening”, round 4

Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · Jun 28

BREAKING: Sen. Mike Lee is STILL trying to sell off public land. He just released a FOURTH version of his reconciliation language, and it keeps getting worse. It doesn't look like this version has been reviewed by the parliamentarian, but he's still trying.

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www.energy.senate.gov/services/fil...

Subtitle C—Lands
14 SEC. 50301. MANDATORY DISPOSAL OF BUREAU OF LAND
15 MANAGEMENT LAND FOR HOUSING.
16 (a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
17 (1) BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT LAND.—
18 The term ‘‘Bureau of Land Management land’’ has
19 the meaning given the term ‘‘public lands’’ in section
20 103 of the Federal Land Policy and Management
21 Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702).
22 (2) COVERED FEDERAL LAND.—The term ‘‘cov23 ered Federal land’’ means Bureau of Land Manage24 ment land selected for disposal under this section

Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 24

floundering in an ocean of public outrage
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Mike Lee Flails As His Public Land Sale Triggers Firestorm

The Utah Senator says he is rewriting his controversial bill to narrow the scope of federal land sales. It is unlikely to appease his growing number of critics.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 19

thank you, Adam!

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Adam M. Sowards @adamsowards.net · Jun 19

If you are a #PublicLand supporter, you need good reporting. Public Domain is at the top and need your support. I pay; if you can, please do so. Our common inheritance depends on it.

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Public Land Reporting Has Never Mattered More

Please help Public Domain continue to deliver what we all need most to make sense of these fast-moving developments: hard facts and context.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 19

America's public lands—our lands—are at a crossroads.

America's conservation tradition is on the the line.

Help our team at Public Domain continue to deliver what we all need most in this moment: hard facts and context.
www.publicdomain.media/p/public-dom...

Public Land Reporting Has Never Mattered More

Please help Public Domain continue to deliver what we all need most to make sense of these fast-moving developments: hard facts and context.

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W. P. Mueller @wpmueller.bsky.social · Jun 17

www.hcn.org/articles/ins...

Inside Utah’s PR campaign to seize public lands - High Country News

Utah used actors, AI, stagecraft and NDAs as it sought to sway public opinion and take control of 18.5 million acres of federal public land.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 18

a special carveout for Big Sky Country and crickets from Montana's GOP senators over the last week — has the perceived Montana firewall against a public land sell-off started to crumble?

my latest...
www.publicdomain.media/p/montana-fi...

Is The Montana Firewall On Public Land Sales Crumbling?

A special carveout for Big Sky Country and crickets from the state’s GOP senators over the last week expose cracks in the Montana delegation’s pro-public lands proclamations.

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 18

it puts more lands at risk of potential sale...but the ~3 million acre cap hasn't changed

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 18

the amendment (updated text released over the weekend) doesn't authorize additional land sales....it expands the pool of eligible land they can draw from to hit ~3 million acre target

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Jonathan Thompson at the Land Desk @landdesk.bsky.social · Jun 18

In which I try to clear up the confusion about public lands acreage for sale in the Senate's latest budget reconciliation bill. Spoiler: It's not 294 million, but it's still atrocious. open.substack.com/pub/landdesk...

Trump's DOJ takes aim at the Antiquities Act

Also: Cutting through the public land sell-off misinformation

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 18

you’ll get no argument from me on that (i run a substack that is almost exclusively focused on aggressively covering threats to the public domain, including Lee’s latest attack)…but accuracy on this is important

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 18

also, if Trump rolls back national monuments, those lands would become part of the pool of lands open for potential sale, but a monument rollback wouldn’t simply make 13.5 million acres available for purchase…again, the bill caps lands to be sold ~3 million

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 18

hi Heather. The bill does not authorize the sale of 258M acres over 5 years….it mandates the sale of ~3M acres over 5 years…the 258M figure (which keeps changing) is lands that are eligible for potential inclusion

yes, this sets a dangerous precedent…but right now, the cap is 3M acres

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Chris D’Angelo @chrisdangelo.bsky.social · Jun 12

today — w/ Senate Republicans having moved to force as much as 3.2M acres of public lands to be sold off to developers — would be a really great time to support our investigative public lands reporting

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