Interior

In this Friday March 16, 2012 photo, made available March 26, 2012, oil rigs belonging to PetroChina are seen near the banks of a snow covered lake in Daqing in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province. The price of oil rose slightly Monday Dec. 3, 2012, as a strong manufacturing report from China countered a weak one in the U.S. An index measuring manufacturing in China showed expansion in November for the first time in 13 months. China is the world's second-largest economy and a huge consumer of oil. A better economy there suggests that energy consumption is likely to grow, pushing oil prices higher. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT

Federal oil and gas leasing system needs reform

Steve Ellis · December 22, 2020 5:00 am

Energy and Environment

Biden chooses Deb Haaland as interior secretary to help curb emissions on federal land

Josh Siegel · December 17, 2020 7:32 pm

Deb Haaland

House Democrats cope with Biden administration pilfering from their slim majority

Susan Ferrechio · December 16, 2020 9:59 pm

In this Monday, Dec. 17, 2012 photo, an American bittern hides in the grass during an annual 24-hour Christmastime ritual to count birds along the Texas Gulf Coast in Mad Island, Texas. The data collected, with the help of more than 50 other volunteers spread out into six groups across the 7,000-acre Mad Island preserve, will be regionally and nationally analyzed, landing in a broad database that includes results from hundreds of other bird counts going on nationally during a two week period. What began 113 years ago as an Audobon Society protest to annual bird hunts that left piles of carcasses littered in different parts of the country now helps scientists understand how birds react to short-term weather events, such as drought and flooding, and seek clues on how they might behave as temperatures rise and climate changes. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Trump administration moves forward with relaxing law on killing birds

Tyler Van Dyke · November 27, 2020 9:13 pm

Representative Ryan Zinke, U.S. secretary of interior nominee for president-elect Donald Trump, speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017.

Top DOJ official irked prosecutors by stalling case against Ryan Zinke: Report

Tyler Van Dyke · November 12, 2020 8:13 pm

FILE - This Oct. 2, 2013, file photo, shows a view seen on the way to Glacier Point trail in the Yosemite National Park, Calif. Sexual harassment, bullying and other misconduct is rampant among employees at national parks across the country, including at iconic sites such as Yosemite, Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon, a congressional committee was told Sept. 22, 2016. At Yosemite, at least 18 employees have come forward with allegations of harassment or other misconduct so severe that a recent report labeled working conditions at the park "toxic."

Interior Department approves proposal to give Gold Star families lifetime free entry to national parks

Mica Soellner · November 10, 2020 8:12 pm

Activities on Interior Department-managed land in Colorado contributed $7.4B to state’s GDP last year

Washington Examiner · October 29, 2020 7:30 pm

US Department of Interior efforts added $751M to Minnesota’s economic output in 2019

Washington Examiner · October 29, 2020 12:00 am

In this Oct. 11, 2019 photo, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William "Perry" Pendley speaks at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Energy and Environment

Federal judge removes Trump’s public lands chief in win for Democratic Montana Senate candidate

Josh Siegel · September 26, 2020 12:11 am

In this July 8, 2019 file photo President Donald Trump listens as Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt speaks during an event on the environment in the East Room of the White House in Washington. A congressional committee is investigating whether the U.S. Interior Department helped an Arizona developer and supporter of President Donald Trump get a crucial permit. U.S. Rep. RaÃºl Grijalva is leading an investigation into the proposed 28,000-home development.

‘Simply nutty’: Interior secretary rebukes calls to rename and relocate DC monuments

Mica Soellner · September 3, 2020 1:01 am

The late Rep. John Lewis, who tried to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala. in the "Bloody Sunday" civil rights march in 1965, was suggested for the National Garden of American Heroes.

Washington Secrets

John Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Thurgood Marshall among 700 ‘heroes’ eyed for national garden

Paul Bedard · September 1, 2020 2:25 pm

In this Oct. 11, 2019 photo, U.S. Bureau of Land Management Acting Director William "Perry" Pendley speaks at a conference for journalists in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Energy and Environment

White House withdrawing nominee to lead Bureau of Land Management amid pressure

Zach Halaschak · August 15, 2020 7:54 pm