Interior

The Obama administration has made it easier to grow marijuana on Indian lands than to produce oil and gas.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s ‘energy-no, pot-yes’ policy

John Siciliano · October 10, 2015 4:01 am

"This landmark settlement represents another important step in the Obama administration's efforts to turn the page on past challenges in our government-to-government relationship with tribes," Sally Jewell said. (AP Photo)Â

Native American tribes win $940 million in suit against the feds

Nicole Duran · September 17, 2015 7:56 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 15, 2014 file photo, a greater sage grouse awaits examination after being captured at night outside Saratoga in south-central Wyoming. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is calling for a new wildfire-fighting strategy that protects sagebrush country in the intermountain West that supports cattle ranching as well as a struggling bird species. Looming just over the horizon like the orange glow of a mega-fire, a Sept. 30 court deadline will require the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide whether to list the bird as a threatened or endangered species. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver, File)

Washington Secrets

Interior chief sees no endangered species listing for sage grouse

Paul Bedard · September 16, 2015 4:02 pm

Greater sage grouse perform their annual mating ritual near a blind south of the North Park community of Walden, Colo., April 21, 2007. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Washington Secrets

West’s economy, jobs, states rights threatened by sage grouse endangered listing

Paul Bedard · September 14, 2015 4:01 am

The EPA's Office of the Inspector General said Thursday that it sent a memo to its Region 8 office advising them that the inspector general is taking additional action in its investigation into the toxic wastewater spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado. (AP Photo)

Energy and Environment

Republicans suspect strong agency bias in EPA toxic spill probe

John Siciliano · September 4, 2015 6:03 pm

The letter called it "upsetting that William McKinley's legacy has been tarnished by a political stunt to promote a partisan agenda." (Bloomberg)

Energy and Environment

Boehner presses Obama on legality of renaming Mt. McKinley

John Siciliano · September 2, 2015 8:50 pm

"So you know, I'd like nothing better than to break open that Abandoned Mine Lands fund of money ... and get at it for the purposes that we're talking about. But it's just been impossible so far," said Rep. Rogers. (AP File Photo)

Energy and Environment

East vs. West in coal mine battle

Zack Colman · August 26, 2015 4:01 am

The oil drilling rig Polar Pioneer, shown here as it is towed toward a dock Thursday, May 14, 2015, in Elliott Bay in Seattle has been approved to drill forÂ Arctic oil off the coast of Alaska.Â (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Energy and Environment

Obama gives Shell green light to begin Arctic drilling

John Siciliano · August 17, 2015 8:50 pm

A coal truck Four-Mile surface mine in Kanawha County, West Virginia. The Obama administration proposed stronger regulations for mountaintop coal mining on Thursday, triggering an immediate backlash from Republican lawmakers who say the rules would harm working families. (Graeme Jennings/Examiner)

Energy and Environment

New coal rules trigger GOP backlash

John Siciliano · July 16, 2015 7:37 pm

The U.S. government owns and operates the only strategic reserve for helium in the world.Â (Air Products photos)

Energy and Environment

Demand for helium rises

John Siciliano · July 13, 2015 4:01 am

Two white ducks walk along the beach at Aqualand Marina as emissions spew out of a large stack nearby at the coal-fired Morgantown Generating Station on the Potomac River on June 29, 2015 in Newburg, Maryland. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Energy and Environment

Obama administration looks to change coal mining

Zack Colman · July 10, 2015 4:01 am

Associated Press photo.Â

Beltway Confidential

Congressman calls for Endangered Species Act protection for farmers

Philip Klein · July 7, 2015 11:49 pm