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Protesters gather outside of the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting to protest threats to the nation’s public lands on June 23 in Santa Fe, N.M. Credit: New Mexico Wild

Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill—For Now—But Assault on Federal Land Protections Continues

By Wyatt Myskow

Pumpjacks operate on public land leased to oil and gas developers in Wyoming. Credit: BLM Wyoming

USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey

By Jake Bolster

Gov. Mike Dunleavy speaks at a press conference during the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference in Anchorage. Dunleavy is joined by (from left) Energy Secretary Chris Wright, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Credit: Kate Furby/Inside Climate News

Trump Officials Visit Alaska as Interior Department Pushes Proposal Rescinding Biden-era Arctic Protections

By Kate Furby

A pipeline marker is seen at the site of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 near the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. Credit: Tony Webster/CC BY 2.0 via Flickr

Citing Trump Emergency Order, Army Corps Expedites Review for Line 5 Oil Pipeline in Great Lakes’ Wetlands

By Carrie Klein

The development of a pipline system is seen in an oil field in the Permian Basin of New Mexico. Credit: Sherman Hogue/Bureau of Land Management, New Mexico

Bureau of Land Management Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale

By Marianne Lavelle

Ranger Emily Gamboa helps a visitor at the information desk at Zion National Park in Utah. Credit: NPS/Abi Farish

People Brace for Impacts on Land, Water and Wildlife After Feds Fire Thousands Over Holiday Weekend

By Christine Peterson, High Country News

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, second from the left, helped Pueblo of Jemez Gov. Peter Madalena, center, unveil a poster showing Valles Caldera National Preserve in north central New Mexico, during the event on December 22 celebrating the settlement upholding the pueblo’s entitlement to its ancestral land, including Banco Bonito, inside the national preserve. Credit: Noel Lyn Smith/Inside Climate News

A Native American Community Regains Its Rights to Land in a New Mexico National Preserve

By Noel Lyn Smith

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) joins Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Grappone Convention Center on Jan. 19 in Concord, N.H. Getty: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

Environmental Activists Are Alarmed by Trump’s Picks to Run the EPA, the Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

An aerial view shows the long-depleted Colorado River as it flows between California and Arizona. An irrigation ditch (right) carries the river water toward Quechan tribal land on May 26, 2023 near Winterhaven, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Despite Biden Administration Proposals to Address Colorado River Shortages, a Solution Is Far Off

By Wyatt Myskow

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland testifies during the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the "President's Budget Request for the U.S. Department of the Interior for Fiscal Year 2024," in Dirksen Building on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

A Guardian of Federal Lands, Lambasted by Left and Right

By Grant Schwab

Police officers escort a protester out of the Department of Interior building after a sit-in held by climate activists on Oct. 14, 2021 in Washington, DC. Credit: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Indigenous Climate Activists Arrested After ‘Occupying’ US Department of Interior

By Phil McKenna, Video by Aman Azhar

When an Oil Company Profits From a Pipeline Running Beneath Tribal Land Without Consent, What’s Fair Compensation?

By Judy Fahys

U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), at the U.S. Capitol in January 2019.

What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland

By Judy Fahys

U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), at the U.S. Capitol in January 2019.

Biden Put Climate at the Heart of His Campaign. Now He’s Delivered Groundbreaking Nominees

By James Bruggers, David Hasemyer, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle

Presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks during a Voter Mobilization event at Riverside High School in Durham, North Carolina on Oct. 18, 2020. Credit: Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Could Biden Name an Indigenous Secretary of the Interior? Environmental Groups are Hoping He Will.

By Ilana Cohen

Mining coal in Wyoming. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management

Court: Coal Mined From Public Lands Doesn't Need New Climate Impact Review

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Investigators: We Can’t Tell if Interior Dept. Reassignments Were Legal Due to Lack of Records

By Neela Banerjee

Mountaintop mining in Appalachia. Credit: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

Trump Admin. Halts Mountaintop Mining Health Risks Study

By Phil McKenna

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