Interior

US interior secretary ‘formally establishes’ land management HQ in Grand Junction

Washington Examiner · August 11, 2020 7:00 pm

It’s time to fix our broken oil and gas leasing system

Energy and Environment

It’s time to fix our broken oil and gas leasing system

Washington Examiner · August 8, 2020 1:37 pm

The Great American Outdoors Act is a Band-Aid on a bullet wound

Rep. Bruce Westerman · August 4, 2020 2:44 pm

President Donald Trump walks past police in Lafayette Park after visiting outside St. John's Church across from the White House Monday, June 1, 2020, in Washington. Part of the church was set on fire during protests on Sunday night.

Interior Department watchdog looking into Park Police clearing protesters from Lafayette Square

Zach Halaschak · June 22, 2020 11:24 pm

This photo taken Monday, May 12, 2019, shows what's left of the Lavender pit mine outside the southeastern Arizona city of Bisbee, where the copper operation stopped in 1974.

Energy and Environment

Republicans prepare for energy ‘cold war’ with China

Abby Smith · June 17, 2020 4:00 am

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke speaks after an order withdrawing federal protections for countless waterways and wetland was signed, at EPA headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018.

Energy and Environment

Zinke says Biden’s plan to ban fossil fuel drilling on federal lands is ‘nuts’

Abby Smith · May 18, 2020 4:00 am

FILE - In this May 9, 2017, file photo, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke rides a horse in the new Bears Ears National Monument near Blanding, Utah. Zinke on Monday, June 12, 2017, recommended that the new national monument in Utah be reduced in size and said Congress should step in to designate how selected areas of the 1.3 million-acre site are managed.

Energy and Environment

‘In coordination with the opposition’: Zinke blames ouster on politicized inspector general

Abby Smith · May 17, 2020 4:00 am

The $1 billion Gemini project would be the eighth-largest solar facility in the world.

Energy and Environment

Trump administration approves largest solar farm in US, expected to power 260,000 homes

Josh Siegel · May 11, 2020 7:09 pm

FILE - This April 22, 2008 file photo shows the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in the Black Hills of South Dakota. A U.S. Geological Survey report announced Monday, May 2, 2016, concluded that past fireworks displays at Mount Rushmore are the likely source of a pollutant found in water within the site in western South Dakota.

Mount Rushmore to have Fourth of July fireworks for first time in more than a decade

Zach Halaschak · April 28, 2020 11:35 pm

Washington Secrets

Buzz: Buttigieg pushes back on experience snobs, fatter Interior wallet, China attack on hold

Paul Bedard · April 3, 2020 3:06 pm

Energy and Environment

National parks to waive entry fees during coronavirus pandemic

Caitlin Yilek · March 18, 2020 7:20 pm

In this Dec. 4, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump signs the hat of Bruce Adams, chairman of the San Juan County Commission, after signing a proclamation to shrink the size of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase Escalante national monuments at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City.

Energy and Environment

Interior Department ready to open off-limits Utah lands for drilling and grazing

Tim Pearce · February 6, 2020 7:39 pm