The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is one of America's last truly wild places and must be preserved. | Photo by Loren Blackford
Public lands and waters should never be threatened by oil and gas drilling. We work to protect these special places from legislative assaults and federal regulatory rollbacks that threaten to open them up to exploitation by the fossil fuel industry.
WASHINGTON, DC – During a Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources hearing today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum restated his department’s intentions to cut nearly a billion dollars from the National Park Service’s operating budget – a cut that could eliminate the budget and staffing for roughly 350 NPS sites.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of the Interior announced it would revoke 18 federal rules overseeing geothermal energy projects and mineral mining on public lands and wilderness areas.
The Trump administration’s official budget request for fiscal year 2026 includes a massive rollback of a major conservation funding program, unprecedented cuts to the National Park Service, and further reductions to federal programs aimed at connecting kids and communities with the outdoors.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Trump administration took a step in revoking a major federal rule protecting public lands in its latest giveaway to corporate polluters.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued an order that would potentially require Interior sites to reinstate any monuments, memorials, statues, or markers that have been removed or altered.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Early Thursday morning, Rep. Blake Moore cast the deciding vote to advance Donald Trump’s massive budget reconciliation package that would endanger Utahns’ clean air and water, fast-track reckless oil and gas leasing and development, and raise costs on Utah’s working families—all to give more tax cuts and handouts to billionaires and corporate polluters. The bill passed 215-214 and now heads to the United States Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reports emerged Thursday morning that Donald Trump would pick a top oil and gas lobbyist to oversee federal public lands in Alaska. Kara Moriarty will be Trump’s pick to lead the Department of the Interior’s work in Alaska. Moriarty currently serves as the president and CEO of the Alaska Oil and Gas Association.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The final House version of the Republican reconciliation package will not include mandates to sell potentially hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in the West. Other public land provisions, such as advancing the Ambler mining road in Alaska, controversial provisions affecting the Western Arctic, and rollbacks to land use plans were also stricken from the bill.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum begins two days of testimony on Capitol Hill to House and Senate appropriators.Burgum is scheduled to appear before the House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Tuesday morning, followed by the Senate Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Wednesday morning.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum will appear before Congressional committees for the first time since his confirmation in January.