Interior Secretary

Why Wildfire Experts Are So Worried About This Year’s Fire Season

With a puny snowpack in the Western mountains and a widespread drought, the nation is a tinderbox. A reorganization of federal firefighting efforts and the departure of many staff qualified to join the fight are heightening concern.

By Peter Aldhous

Trump Officials, Billionaires and the Quiet Reshaping of America’s Public Lands

By Evan Simon and Ames Alexander, Floodlight

Who Loses in the Trump Administration’s $1 Billion ‘Deal’ to Abandon Offshore Wind?

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth

Trump Administration Targets Bison on Federal Grazing Lands

By Blaine Harden

Trump’s ‘God Squad’ Will Weigh Gulf Oil Drilling Against the Survival of Endangered Whales and Turtles

By Kiley Price

After Trump’s Interior Secretary Transferred Thousands of Staff to His Office, Chaos Followed, Former Workers Say

By Jake Bolster, Peter Aldhous

States and Nonprofits Are Helping National Parks Run During the Shutdown. Could Their Efforts Backfire?

By Jake Bolster

Citing ‘AI Arms Race,’ Trump Administration Announces Efforts to Rekindle US Coal Industry

By Jake Bolster

The Trump Administration Dismisses the Endangered Species List as ‘Hotel California.’ But There’s Far More to the Story

By Kiley Price

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

By Wyatt Myskow

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

By Jake Bolster

Trump Official Visits, Touts Alabama Coal Mine With Thousands of Federal Safety Violations

By Lee Hedgepeth

Directive From New Interior Secretary Weakens Public Land Protections to Push Fossil Fuels

By Lisa Sorg, Wyatt Myskow