Federal government announces historic water cuts as Colorado River falls to new lows
We’re at Defcon 3 on the Colorado River. The Interior Department announced sweeping changes on Tuesday to the way Colorado River water is doled out …
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Dept. of Interior announces expansion of fishing, hunting on National Wildlife Refuges
Yesterday the Department of the Interior announced that U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened new or expanded hunting and sport fishing opportunities across 2.1 …
Interior releases $900M GAOA spending plan
The Interior Department belatedly rolled out its plans for spending $900 million under the Great American Outdoors Act but offered few specifics — aside from …
Advocate for selling public lands will remain BLM acting director
U.S. Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt has extended the tenure of the Trump administration’s top steward of public lands, rebuffing Democrats’ calls for his termination. …
Drilling the Swamp
Joe Balash, a top Trump Interior appointee who helped push through drilling in the Arctic, is taking a job with an oil company seeking to …
Coming to a Coastline Near You
The Trump administration is likely to open up portions of the Atlantic to oil and gas drilling despite opposition from East Coast states, a U.S. …
Trump Administration Is Selling Western Wildlife Corridors to Oil and Gas Industry
In 2018 the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) released Secretarial Order 3362, a directive intended to align the department’s development priorities with the wildlife management …
Despite shutdown, Trump administration continues work to begin oil drilling in ANWR
The Bureau of Land Management, the office at Interior that handles permitting for oil and gas on 700 million acres of public lands, is closed …
Silencing silence
President Donald Trump says he doubts humans have much of a role in climate change. His administration has downplayed the science of climate change and …
Monumental Disaster at the Department of the Interior
In a new report, Science Under Siege at the Department of the Interior, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) has documented some of the most …