What gutting the Council on Environmental Quality means for public lands

Go West, Young Podcast by Center for Western Priorities

Feb 13, 202651:13Sports & Recreation

In this episode, Kate and Aaron are joined by Professor John Ruple, a public lands law expert at the University of Utah and former attorney at the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), to discuss the Trump administrati...

Related Episodes

Continue listening to more episodes from Go West, Young Podcast.

LIVE from Tucson: Arizona’s Public Lands and the Border Wall

Aug 31, 2026 - 1:00:41

Recorded live at Scoundrel and Scamp Theatre in Tucson as part of CWP’s Keep Parks Public campaign, Aaron...

Introducing: On Common Ground, a new podcast about the fight to maintain our public lands

Aug 27, 2026 - 45:55

Kate and Aaron run through the weekly news, including the Trump administration’s plans to repeal th...

Are America’s public lands entering a new Gilded Age?

Aug 13, 2026 - 43:02

Kate and Aaron are joined by Professor John Leshy, one of the nation’s top scholars of public lands...

LIVE from Santa Fe: Defending New Mexico’s public lands

Aug 6, 2026 - 56:52

Recorded live at Nuckolls Brewing in Santa Fe as part of CWP’s Keep Parks Public campaign , Kate in...

Wild women with author Heather Hansman

Jul 29, 2026 - 43:04

Kate and Aaron talk to Heather Hansman about her new book, Fierce Country: The Untold Story of Three Wome...

Who is Doug Burgum, really?

Jul 16, 2026 - 49:46

Forum of Fargo-Moorhead columnist Mike McFeely joins Aaron and Kate to trace Doug Burgum’s path fro...

Tracy Stone-Manning on the future of public lands

Jun 29, 2026 - 39:47

Aaron talks with Tracy Stone-Manning, president of The Wilderness Society, former director of the Bureau...

How Trump and Burgum hijacked the Park Service and America’s birthday party

Jun 17, 2026 - 48:04

Kate and Aaron talk to Jayson O’Neill, a longtime public lands watchdog and Montanan who previously...