public land
The changes are a marked shift for a federal agency that environmentalists have long derided as the “Bureau of Livestock and Mining.”
Biden’s Interior wants to give conservationists equal power to oil companies on public lands in order to protect them — rather than exploit them.
Trump pardoned two arsonist ranchers a week after a $10,000 donation was made to the America First Action PAC, which funded his 2020 reelection bid.
Along with designating Camp Hale-Continental Divide National Monument, he moved to ban new mining across 225,000 federal acres.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
As the country marks National Public Lands Day this weekend, the political tug of war over federal lands and waters wages on.
But its recommendation stopped short of the outright ban pushed by environmental groups.
The Trump administration's controversial relocation of the Bureau of Land Management headquarters resulted in hundreds of staff departures.
An unlikely alliance of ranchers, Indigenous communities and environmentalists is trying to save the Owyhee Canyonlands.
Senate Republicans are really going all in on the idea that Joe Biden's pick to lead the Interior Department is a "radical."
Turns out that Deb Haaland, a Native American lawmaker determined to tackle climate change, scares Republicans bankrolled by the oil and gas industry.