US greenlights major transmission line for renewable energy in Western states
The Bureau of Land Management has approved nearly three dozen renewable energy and grid improvement projects since 2021.
By Associated Press - May 21, 2023The Bureau of Land Management has approved nearly three dozen renewable energy and grid improvement projects since 2021.
By Associated Press - May 21, 2023Donald Trump’s administration had tried to open old-growth forests in Alaska and Minnesota to logging and mining.
By Oliver Willis - January 30, 2023Funds allocated under the Inflation Reduction Act will be used to combat drought conditions in Southwestern states.
By Oliver Willis - October 14, 2022Meteorologists say models used to predict storm impacts do not always keep up with increasingly devastating rainstorms, hurricanes, heat waves and other events.
By Associated Press - July 10, 2022The increase in pay for federal wildland firefighters comes as the United Nations warns of a ‘global wildfire crisis.’
By Oliver Willis - June 21, 2022The new allocation includes federal aid to cap 18 orphaned wells in the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania.
By Oliver Willis - May 26, 2022The funds will be used to help pay for projects that will help tribes adapt to climate change, as well as pay for the management of ocean and coastal assets.
By Oliver Willis - April 12, 2022The Environmental Protection Agency would see its largest budget in 51 years if President Joe Biden’s proposed budget is enacted.
By Oliver Willis - March 29, 2022The 211-mile project would have cut through the second-largest national park in the United States.
By Oliver Willis - February 23, 2022Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy, and the National Republican Congressional Committee apparently all think the disgraced former Interior secretary should be back in Congress.
By Josh Israel - February 16, 2022Andrónico Luksic once rented a $5.5 million home in Washington, D.C., to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner while his family’s mining company lobbied the Trump administration.
By Oliver Willis - January 28, 2022Former President Donald Trump opposed wind power because wind turbines ‘kill’ birds — but climate change kills many more.
By Oliver Willis - January 14, 2022The Federal Land Freedom Act would give states full control over public lands they don’t own.
By Josh Israel - August 03, 2021South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says her opponents ‘don’t want to celebrate America or our freedoms.’
By Oliver Willis - June 03, 2021A federal judge said forcing the Interior Department to allow Independence Day fireworks despite safety concerns would be ‘improper judicial activism.’
By Josh Israel - June 03, 2021Supporters of restoring protections say the new laws will tip the scales and drive down wolf numbers to unsustainable levels,
By Associated Press - May 26, 2021‘The missing and murdered Indigenous peoples crisis is one that Native communities have faced since the dawn of colonization,’ said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.
By Associated Press - May 05, 2021‘The State of South Dakota is suffering from widespread drought conditions, low humidity, high wind, and high temperatures that create serious peril for our state,’ Gov. Kristi Noem said in March.
By Oliver Willis - May 03, 2021Ryan Zinke resigned his position as interior secretary in December 2019 amid numerous ethics investigations into his activities.
By Josh Israel - April 29, 2021Deb Haaland called the orders by her predecessors ‘inconsistent with the department’s commitment to protect public health; conserve land, water, and wildlife; and elevate science.’
By Associated Press - April 16, 2021The Interior Department oversees the nation’s public lands and waters and leads relations with nearly 600 federally recognized tribes.
By Associated Press - March 03, 2021Republican lawmakers worry that Deb Haaland will stop the Trump administration’s giveaway of public lands.
By Josh Israel - February 10, 2021Naming Deb Haaland as interior secretary breaks a 245-year record of non-Natives serving as the very top federal official over American Indian affairs.
By Associated Press - December 17, 2020Interior Department inspector general Mark Greenblatt has been assigned to investigate law enforcement actions in Lafayette Park.
By Associated Press - June 22, 2020‘What we’re really concerned about is making sure everyone is safe.’
By Associated Press - March 27, 2020The Interior Department has reportedly included boilerplate climate change denial language in at least nine scientific reports.
By Josh Israel - March 02, 2020Bijan Ghaisar was shot and killed by Park Police under the command of Robert MacLean, who has been promoted to a senior position in the Department of the Interior.
By Oliver Willis - September 16, 2019The Government Accountability Office says Trump’s team broke the law when they diverted funds to clean up piles of waste that accrued during the shutdown.
By Oliver Willis - September 06, 2019Interior Dept. official Joe Balash met with Oil Search multiple times when he was a government employee. Now he’ll work for them as they drill in Alaska.
By Oliver Willis - September 04, 2019The administration is moving the Bureau of Land Management to Colorado and lawmakers who oppose the move are met with threats.
By Lisa Needham - August 29, 2019