Attorneys for former Olympic canoeist David Hearn sent a 21-page letter on October 6, 2026 asking Justice and Interior Department inspectors general to investigate his prosecution over damage to the Lincoln Memorial...
The Interior Department rejected more than 130 partnership agreements worth over $25 million for projects at national parks including Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion and Joshua Tree, according to internal documents reported...
Democratic attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia filed two lawsuits on September 9, 2026 challenging Trump administration rules that narrow protections under the 1973 Endangered Species Act. One...
Trump signed an executive order, "Supporting America's Ranchers," on September 4, 2026, giving Interior Secretary Doug Burgum 90 days to determine whether the gray wolf and the Mexican wolf have met Endangered Species...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on X on September 3 that the administration was preparing to begin excavation work for the Great Triumphal Arch and Military Observation Deck over the next two-week period...
In an Aug. 28, 2026 letter to the Smithsonian Institution's Board of Regents, made public in early September, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and White House Domestic Policy Council Director Vince Haley wrote that federal...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the California Energy Commission sued the Trump administration and Golden State Wind LLC on Aug. 28, 2026 over the Interior Department's buyout of the company's offshore wind...
The Interior Department and a lawyer for Kingsbarn Realty Capital confirmed on Aug. 28-29, 2026 that the National Park Service has been discussing a land exchange giving the Nevada-based firm a piece of Yosemite National...
The Washington Post reported on Aug. 27 that a federal settlement paying German utility RWE $1.2 billion to surrender offshore wind leases in New York, California and Louisiana will route $900 million of it to a firm run...
Nevada, the Colorado River Commission of Nevada and the Southern Nevada Water Authority sued the Interior Department on Monday over the new Colorado River framework, which requires Arizona, California and Nevada to cut...