Leaves are shifting from vibrant greens to the yellows, reds and browns of fall. Crisp autumn air and vivid sunrises greet us in the mornings. Long days filled with endless activity are fading. Fall has a different cadence. The end of summer is when we begin to slow down, reflect and settle in with our […]
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether Ryan Zinke lied to Interior Department investigators. The Washington Post reported Thursday that the Justice Department’s public integrity section had begun the probe of the interior secretary, who left office Wednesday. Zinke told the Associated Press that he had not lied to the investigators looking into possible […]
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Department of the Interior today for failing to provide public records on Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt’s communications and schedules. These records could shed light on the Trump administration’s abrupt decision to allow an enormous California groundwater-mining scheme, Cadiz, Inc., to move forward without environmental review. Today’s lawsuit also seeks […]
Even as the Trump administration is working to open more and more federal lands up for oil and natural gas exploration, the Interior Department is aiming at rolling back Obama administration rules restricting harmful methane emissions from oil and gas exploration on those lands. The rollback to the rules is being published in the Federal […]