Tag: Department of Interior
Department of Interior awards grants to communities through National Park Service’s program
The program provides matching grants, up to 50 percent of the total project costs, to "enable urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors."
Secretary of the Interior first: Deb Haaland, member of the Pueblo...
“I’ll be fierce for all of us, our planet, and all of our protected land.”
Inside the Trump administration’s chaotic dismantling of the federal land agency
Internal records from the Bureau of Land Management contradict what its chief told Congress about a plan to ship 200 D.C.-based career staff out West. The plan would weaken the agency, which stands between federal lands and oil, gas and mineral companies.
Trump administration to remove gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act
"This attempt to eliminate crucial protections for gray wolves demonstrates an anti-predator bias that continues to influence wolf management decisions."
Internal watchdog refers Ryan Zinke’s behavior while in office to Justice...
There are currently three open ethics investigations surrounding Zinke's behavior while in office.
Interior Sec. Zinke blames ‘radical environmentalists,’ not climate change, as 100+...
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wrote an op-ed last week in USA Today about forest management on public lands that blamed “radical environmentalists” for the fires.
Trump administration wants to charge $70 entrance fee for national parks
The Trump administration's new proposed budget plan increases funding for dirty energy development on public lands, while cutting everything else.
Interior Department whistleblower resigns in disgust
“You are unwilling to lead on climate change, and cannot be trusted with our nation’s natural resources.”
Public lands and waters ‘for sale’ at US Dept. of Interior
"Secretary Zinke is meeting almost exclusively with fossil fuel lobbyists, ignoring the voices of people in this country."
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Unions win settlement forcing Trump administration to rescind shutdown mass-firing policy
The agreement follows a court fight that began after roughly 4,200 federal employees received layoff notices during last fall's 43-day shutdown.
States settle antitrust suit over $111 billion Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
Critics say a force-majeure clause and a company-appointed editorial board leave the settlement's protections easy to escape.
The best comeuppance for the first anti-American administration – perpetual exposure as the seditious...
If Russia or China wanted a Manchurian candidate (a brainwashed stooge who betrays his own background and constituency), could they have surpassed the president harumphing in the White House?
Federal judge orders White House to restore access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico
The order lasts 14 days, and the outlets have until Monday to seek a preliminary injunction after some reporters were briefly turned away despite the ruling.
Why didn’t Netanyahu’s cabinet preempt October 7 (since it knew about it in advance)?
New York Times reporting confirms Israeli leadership had advance intelligence before the October 7 attack, raising fresh questions about why it was not acted on.