Department of Interior
USGS Touts Potential Oil and Gas Resources Beneath Public Lands in Updated Survey
By Jake Bolster
Trump Officials Visit Alaska as Interior Department Pushes Proposal Rescinding Biden-era Arctic Protections
By Kate Furby
Citing Trump Emergency Order, Army Corps Expedites Review for Line 5 Oil Pipeline in Great Lakes’ Wetlands
By Carrie Klein
Bureau of Land Management Trims Environmental Review Before $20 Million Oil and Gas Lease Sale
By Marianne Lavelle
People Brace for Impacts on Land, Water and Wildlife After Feds Fire Thousands Over Holiday Weekend
By Christine Peterson, High Country News
A Native American Community Regains Its Rights to Land in a New Mexico National Preserve
By Noel Lyn Smith
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
Despite Biden Administration Proposals to Address Colorado River Shortages, a Solution Is Far Off
By Wyatt Myskow
A Guardian of Federal Lands, Lambasted by Left and Right
By Grant Schwab
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
What’s On Interior’s To-Do List? A Full Plate of Public Lands Issues—and Trump Rollbacks—for Deb Haaland
By Judy Fahys
Biden Put Climate at the Heart of His Campaign. Now He’s Delivered Groundbreaking Nominees
By James Bruggers, David Hasemyer, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle
Could Biden Name an Indigenous Secretary of the Interior? Environmental Groups are Hoping He Will.
By Ilana Cohen
Court: Coal Mined From Public Lands Doesn't Need New Climate Impact Review
By John H. Cushman Jr.
Investigators: We Can’t Tell if Interior Dept. Reassignments Were Legal Due to Lack of Records
By Neela Banerjee