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

The Bureau of Land Management has approved nearly three dozen renewable energy and grid improvement projects since 2021.

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.

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

The increase in pay for federal wildland firefighters comes as the United Nations warns of a ‘global wildfire crisis.’

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.

The Environmental Protection Agency would see its largest budget in 51 years if President Joe Biden’s proposed budget is enacted.

The 211-mile project would have cut through the second-largest national park in the United States.

Donald Trump, Kevin McCarthy, and the National Republican Congressional Committee apparently all think the disgraced former Interior secretary should be back in Congress.

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.

The Federal Land Freedom Act would give states full control over public lands they don’t own.

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem says her opponents ‘don’t want to celebrate America or our freedoms.’

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

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.

Ryan Zinke resigned his position as interior secretary in December 2019 amid numerous ethics investigations into his activities.

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.

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.

Interior Department inspector general Mark Greenblatt has been assigned to investigate law enforcement actions in Lafayette Park.

‘What we’re really concerned about is making sure everyone is safe.’  

The Interior Department has reportedly included boilerplate climate change denial language in at least nine scientific reports.

Bijan Ghaisar was shot and killed by Park Police under the command of Robert MacLean, who has been promoted to a senior position in the Department of the Interior.

The Government Accountability Office says Trump’s team broke the law when they diverted funds to clean up piles of waste that accrued during the shutdown.

Interior Dept. official Joe Balash met with Oil Search multiple times when he was a government employee. Now he’ll work for them as they drill in Alaska.