Government watchdog groups say the Department of Interior’s proposed revisions to its Freedom of Information Act guidelines leave the public in the dark about government activity and may be illegal.
Read moreA day after a report surfaced that former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is under scrutiny for potentially lying to investigators in his own department, an attorney for an anti-corruption watchdog said Friday federal officials take those allegations very seriously.
Read moreThe Trump administration declined Tuesday to extend federal protections to 13 rare species of wildlife.
Read moreEBy ELLEN KNICKMEYER and JONATHAN LEMIRE WASHINGTON (AP) — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who is facing federal investigations into his
Read moreA nonprofit science advocacy group has issued a scathing rebuke to the Trump administration in general and the Interior Department and its chief Ryan Zinke in particular, saying the agency works to suppress the work of scientists to the benefit of the oil and gas industry.
Read moreIf what happened Friday is any indication, the relationship between the incoming chair of the House Natural Resources Committee and Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke will be contentious to say the least.
Read moreAn Ohio historical group claims in court that a country club refuses to agree to an early end to its lease of a golf course covering an “enormous, geometric earthworks” built by Native Americans 2,000 years ago.
Read moreA species of rainbow-colored fish and the streams they’re found in across Virginia and West Virginia are both slated to receive federal wildlife protections by the Trump administration in response to litigation by conservation groups.
Read moreThe House of Representatives voted 196-180 on Friday to drop legal protections for gray wolves across the lower 48 states.
Read moreThe Interior Department is taking deliberate, unlawful steps to preclude scientists and the public from having a say in the designation of endangered species, a federal lawsuit claims.
Read moreThe Native Ecosystems Council brought a federal complaint against Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke for authorizing livestock grazing, sagebrush burning and conifer removal across vast public landscapes in southwest Montana that provide habitat for the protected sage grouse.
Read moreA lawsuit filed by conservation groups Monday is a stark warning on the future of an endangered bat species after years of alleged inaction by the federal agency tasked with keeping the bat alive.
Read moreThe Trump administration is considering using West Coast military installations or other federal properties to open the way for more U.S. fossil fuel exports to Asia, but environmentalists see the proposal as nothing more than a handout to the fossil fuel industry which ignores the costs of climate change.
Read moreU.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke approved a 20-year ban on new mining claims in the towering mountains north of Yellowstone National Park on Monday, after two proposed gold mines raised concerns that an area drawing tourists from the around the globe could be spoiled.
Read moreCalifornia and New Mexico on Tuesday sued to block the Trump administration from rolling back an Obama-era rule that would curb air pollution from oil and gas wells on public land.
Read moreA national nonprofit legal organization claimed in federal court Tuesday that several western states will suffer financially while coal, oil and gas industries will unfairly benefit from the unlawful actions of the Department of Interior’s Royalty Policy Committee.
Read morePlans to overhaul the Interior and Energy departments are stalled until lawmakers receive more information about the cost-benefit of undertaking such a massive restructuring, a Senate panel told department heads on Thursday.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued the federal government on Monday for not designating critical habitat for four species of endangered mussels in violated of the Endangered Species Act.
Read moreThe federal government will not pay for a $14.5 million highway contract on Montana’s Crow Indian Tribe reservation because it says the tribe cannot find the receipts for the project.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s renewal of two expired mining leases in Northern Minnesota drew a federal lawsuit on the first day of summer, from nine outdoor-recreation businesses who say the move threatens a pristine and iconic wilderness area.
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