More than 14 million acres of public land in New Mexico could be eligible for sale if the U.S. Senate’s budget reconciliation bill passes, a possibility that’s alarming environmental advocates and ...

A U.S. Senate Republican budget bill would sell off millions of acres of public land across the U.S. to developers, including more than 21,000 square miles in New ...

A plan to sell more than 3,200 square miles of federal lands has been ruled out of Republicans’ big tax and spending cut bill ...

The changes, spurred by an advisory ruling that warned the land sale provision likely violated Senate rules, came quickly ...

The 940-page bill Senate Republican leaders unveiled Friday night to implement President Trump’s agenda includes a revised section pushed by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) to sell public land.

Furthermore, the Senate’s version of the bill would order the sale of public lands up to 0.5 percent in 11 states, including California, Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington.

Over the last five years, while local jails in the United States have been holding fewer people, New Mexico’s largest jail ...

Sen. Murray criticized GOP bill making 250M+ acres of public land eligible for sale. About 5.4M acres of public land would be at risk in Washington, the WA Democrat says. Republicans claim measure ...

For advocates, the fight is a prime example of the current challenges to passing gun control measures in the US.

In total, the bill references between roughly 2.2 million and 3.3 million acres of land split between BLM (1.23-1.84 million acres), and the Forest Service (between 956,000 and 1.45 million acres) ...