WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum is appearing before the House Natural Resources Committee to defend the Trump Administration’s sweeping proposed budget cuts to the country’s largest land management agencies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Republicans are supercharging an effort to sell huge swaths of public lands to private developers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump Administration is moving to break with a legal precedent that could threaten the integrity of national monuments across the country.With little fanfare, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel issued a legal opinion yesterday concluding presidents have the authority to revoke national monument designations made by their predecessors.
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.