Environmental groups praised the department's decision and other efforts to restrict drilling in the Arctic.

Donald Trump’s administration had tried to open old-growth forests in Alaska and Minnesota to logging and mining.

Funds allocated under the Inflation Reduction Act will be used to combat drought conditions in Southwestern states.

The Energy Department announced nearly $50 million for research, development and demonstration work to support floating offshore wind platforms.

In August alone, the Department of Commerce gave over $634 million in funding toward improving internet infrastructure on Tribal land.

Meteorologists say models used to predict storm impacts do not always keep up with increasingly devastating rainstorms, hurricanes, heat waves and other events.

The new allocation includes federal aid to cap 18 orphaned wells in the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania.

The funds will be used to help pay for projects that will help tribes adapt to climate change, as well as pay for the management of ocean and coastal assets.

Andrónico Luksic once rented a $5.5 million home in Washington, D.C., to Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner while his family’s mining company lobbied the Trump administration.

Former President Donald Trump opposed wind power because wind turbines ‘kill’ birds — but climate change kills many more.

A federal judge said forcing the Interior Department to allow Independence Day fireworks despite safety concerns would be ‘improper judicial activism.’

Rep.-elect Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) trounced her Republican opponent.

New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District has been controlled by Democrats since 2009.

Supporters of restoring protections say the new laws will tip the scales and drive down wolf numbers to unsustainable levels,

‘The missing and murdered Indigenous peoples crisis is one that Native communities have faced since the dawn of colonization,’ said Interior Secretary Deb Haaland.

‘The State of South Dakota is suffering from widespread drought conditions, low humidity, high wind, and high temperatures that create serious peril for our state,’ Gov. Kristi Noem said in March.

Deb Haaland called the orders by her predecessors ‘inconsistent with the department’s commitment to protect public health; conserve land, water, and wildlife; and elevate science.’

The Interior Department oversees the nation’s public lands and waters and leads relations with nearly 600 federally recognized tribes.

Republican lawmakers worry that Deb Haaland will stop the Trump administration’s giveaway of public lands.

Rep. Deb Haaland, former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, and Michael Regan, North Carolina’s Department of Environmental Quality secretary, are his latest qualified nominees.

Naming Deb Haaland as interior secretary breaks a 245-year record of non-Natives serving as the very top federal official over American Indian affairs.

The New Mexico Democrat is one of the first two Native American women to serve in Congress.

New Mexico Democrat Deb Haaland is hoping to make history in November.