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...
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed the 2027-2028 Colorado River operating guidelines on Friday, Aug. 21, imposing mandatory delivery cuts on the three Lower Basin states after three years of talks among the seven...
National Park Service employees were directed from Washington to move maintenance projects already approved for this year onto a new "low priority" list while work sought by the White House took precedence, according to...
Democratic leaders of the House Natural Resources Committee wrote to Dennis Kirk, President Trump's nominee to lead the Interior Department's inspector general office, on Aug. 18, 2026, telling him that 'any direction to...
Trump nominated Dennis Kirk, a co-author of the Project 2025 policy blueprint and a former Trump-administration personnel and intelligence-community watchdog official, to serve as the Interior Department's inspector...
President Trump signed an executive order on July 24, 2026 directing the Interior Department, through the National Park Service, to install signage on public walkways leading to the Smithsonian's National Museum of...
On July 10, 2026, the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce announced they had finalized a rule rescinding the regulatory definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act. Since 1981, that...