Alaska
This president signed the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) that protected more than 100 million acres of Alaskan land.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The Greatest ___ for the Greatest ___.
What are Good and Number?
This case ended Chevron deference.
What is Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo?
This type of Estate results when the owner of land and the owner of the minerals under the land are not the same.
What is the Split Estate?
President Trump has discussed acquiring the country, in large part because of its mineral wealth.
What is Greenland?
Per legislation passed in 2017, this area was opened up for oil and gas leasing after being nominally protected since 1980.
What is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or ANWR?
The difference between Pinchot's utilitarian conservation policy and John Muir's preservation philosophy played out in the debate over this proposed infrastructure project.
What is the Hetch-Hetchy Dam?
This law allows Congress to undo an agency action with a simple majority vote.
What is the Congressional Review Act?
The "Rule of Capture" was announced in this seminal Property Law case.
What is Pierson v. Post?
Opposition to the Twin Metals Mine in Minnesota is based on protesting this recreational resource.
What is the Boundary Waters (Wilderness Area)?
Biden drew the ire on many environmentalists by approving this massive oil drilling project.
What is the Willow Project?
Pinchot's family established a forestry school at this college.
What is Yale?
In 2022, the SCOTUS decision elevated the "Major Questions Doctrine" to strike down a regulation promulgated under this statute.
What is the Clean Air Act?
This law opened the public lands to mineral acquisition by the location and maintenance of mining claims.
What is the 1872 General Mining Law?
The "white gold" for electric vehicles.
What is lithium?
The proposed Pebble Mine would extract this mineral.
What is gold and/or copper?
Pinchot (with an assist from Teddy) succeeded in wresting control of what were then called the "Forest Reserves" from this agency.
What is the General Land Office?
In March, this agency announced "the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history," proposing to "reconsider" and possibly undo 31 specific prior agency actions.
What is the EPA?
This asteroid is said to be worth $10,000 Quadrillion.
What is Psyche?
You were asked in professor queries to provide a status update for this massive lithium mine in Nevada.
What is Thacker Pass?
The proposed Pebble Mine threatens this significant body of water.
What is Bristol Bay?
This "Affair" involved charges by Pinchot that the Interior Department was providing favorable treatment for natural resources syndicates to extract coal from Alaskan forest land.
What is the Ballinger Affair?
This Valley was targeted by Disney for a ski resort in the 1960s, leading to a historically significant SCOTUS decision on environmental standing.
What is Mineral King?
Each coastal state owns the seabed for this many nautical miles from the coast.
What is three?
These are TWO of the "electric eighteen," 18 identified minerals that are critical for energy delivery.
What are aluminum, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, electrical steel, fluorine, gallium, iridium, lithium, magnesium, natural graphite, neodymium, nickel, platinum, praseodymium, silicon, silicon carbide and terbium?