The Obama Administration has given Royal Shell Oil permission to drill in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska’s northwest coast. This is the first time gas and drilling operations have been given the go-ahead since an exploratory well was drilled in 1991. In a statement released Monday, an administration environmental official pledged to monitor the work […]
The Obama administration announced today that as a part of the Department of Interior’s ambitious youth initiative, $6.7 million was set aside to hire young people to work on public lands across the nation. The secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell made the announcement while at an event at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal national wildlife […]
The U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior said today in a congressionally mandated report that the two departments will need over $470 million more than the $1.4 billion they have available to them for fighting wildfires this season. This newest forecast of annual suppression expenditures is the first of three to be […]