WASHINGTON, D.C. – An alliance of more than 100 groups, from environmental organizations to groups supporting outdoor recreation and social justice, are calling on the Secretary of the Interior to reverse a controversial order undermining historical representation on public lands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reports have emerged that a former National Park Service employee could face criminal charges for a free speech demonstration on the park’s famous El Capitan cliff.
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, DC – Some visitors could pay higher fees to visit America’s national parks with Donald Trump’s recent budget proposal.
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, DC – The Trump administration’s proposed budget, released this month, includes transferring hundreds of National Park Service sites to state management. This comes as the administration seeks to cut the NPS budget by $900 million.
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. – 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.
PORT ANGELES, WA -- Today, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum is beginning a tour of national park sites – including some in the Pacific Northwest. It comes as the Trump administration continues one of the most serious attacks on American public lands in recent memory.
Burgum is scheduled to visit Olympic National Park today during a visit to Washington State. It is Burgum’s second field tour in a week, after visiting an LNG processing facility in Louisiana earlier this month.
WASHINGTON, DC – Yesterday, The Washington Post reported that the Interior Department temporarily suspended an air-quality monitoring program in the national parks.
Washington, DC – Today, the White House released Donald Trump’s FY2026 budget outline, which would make unprecedented cuts to essential services and drastically underfund critical programs and departments across government that the American people rely on. This comes as Congressional Republicans are advancing a plan to provide tax cuts and handouts to billionaires and corporate polluters.