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Pacific Standard
March 10, 2018
A Top Adviser at the Department of the Interior Is Under Fire After Meeting Extensively With Oil and Mining Representatives ... As is the case with other prominent officials at the Department of the Interior (DOI) appointed by Secretary Ryan Zinke, the official work calendar of senior adviser KathleenÃâà...
Washington Examiner
March 10, 2018
A report funded by the Interior Department is recommending that the agency work closely with the oil industry to establish standards to prevent spills from bolt failures on undersea safety equipment used in deepwater drilling. The National Academies of Sciences issued the report Friday, raising concernsÃâà...
KTOO
March 10, 2018
Tara Sweeney at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives convention in October 2017. Her nomination to be assistant interior secretary for Indian affairs has been held up for months. (Photo by Zachariah Hughes/Alaska Public Media). Alaskan Tara Sweeney is President Donald Trump's pick to be the nextÃâà...
EcoWatch
March 10, 2018
In the emails, published by The Post, Douglas Domenech, the Department of the Interior's assistant secretary for insular areas and one of the appointees featured in the POLITICO report, complained about the language in a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) press release about shrinking glaciers in Montana. The releaseÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 10, 2018
The Interior Department is spending nearly $139,000 to upgrade three sets of double doors in the office of Secretary Ryan Zinke. Zinke was not aware of the contract for the work prior to a request about it from The Associated Press, spokeswoman Heather Swift said. The project was planned by careerÃâà...
HuffPost
March 9, 2018
Zinke's personal calendar shows that Mashburn was among several Interior Department officials in attendance at the event. A detailed schedule the department released as part of a public records request shows that after the public event, Mashburn joined Zinke and other agency officials for a privateÃâà...
Alaska Dispatch News
March 9, 2018
David Bernhardt, deputy secretary of the Interior department, speaks at a breakfast organized by the Alaska Support Industry Alliance on March 8, 2018, in Anchorage. Seated to his right are former Lt. Gov Mead Treadwell and Joe Balash, an assistant secretary for the interior. (Alex DeMarban / ADN).
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
March 8, 2018
Members of the Fairbanks community gather in front of the Noel Wien Public Library on Wednesday afternoon to speak out against continued steps forward to open the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil development. Erin Granger/News-Miner. Facebook Ãâ÷ Twitter Ãâ÷ Email; Print; Save.
Alaska Public Radio Network
March 7, 2018
Interior Department Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt addresses the North Slope Borough Assembly in Utqiagvik March 6, 2018. (Photo by Ravenna Koenig/Alaska's Energy Desk). A high-profile guest was in attendance at the North Slope Borough Assembly meeting in Utqiaġvik Tuesday. The InteriorÃâà...
YubaNet
March 5, 2018
Washington, DC March 5, 2018 – The legal authority of the acting heads in three major Interior Department agencies is still up in the air, according to the General Counsel of Interior's own Office of Inspector General (IG). Consequently, the validity of months of actions taken by the current and former actingÃâà...
New York Times
March 2, 2018
The debate started as early as March 2017, when an aide to Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah, asked a senior Interior Department official to consider reduced boundaries for Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah to remove land that contained oil and natural gas deposits that hadÃâà...
Center For American Progress
March 2, 2018
Over the past year, none of President Donald Trump's Cabinet members have undergone as rapid and fundamental a change in policies and positions as Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. The former Montana congressman received bipartisan acclaim in his confirmation hearings for espousing theÃâà...
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
March 1, 2018
DENVER (AP) - U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's plan to put more of his department's decision-makers in the field has a fundamental flaw in the eyes of some who spent their careers making those decisions. Eleven former Interior Department officials with decades of experience in both Washington and in local offices toldÃâà...
Colorado Public Radio
February 28, 2018
The 11 former Interior Department officials who spoke with the AP came mostly from the Bureau of Land Management but also the National Park Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service. Their job experiences ranged from park ranger to director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Each spoke on the record.
Government Accountability Office
February 28, 2018
GAO reviewed the Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service's (Service) new rule on migratory bird hunting; migratory bird hunting regulations on certain federal Indian reservations and ceded lands for the 2017-18 season. GAO found that (1) the final rule (a) prescribes special migratory birdÃâà...
Washington Examiner
February 22, 2018
The Interior Department has revealed that it flies an expanded drone air force of over 300 aircraft, and that they flew nearly 5,000 flights, with many to help fight forest fires. “With a fleet of 312 unmanned aircraft, the Department of the Interior's (DOI) Office of Aviation Services flew nearly 5,000 missions inÃâà...
High Country News
February 21, 2018
In a letter from the Western Governors' Association, the group asked the Department of the Interior to delay the proposal and seek more meaningful input from states. The governors questioned how the plan would impact “the ability of its bureaus to consult, coordinate, and cooperate with states?”.
Statesman Journal
February 19, 2018
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A year of upheaval at the U.S. Interior Department has seen dozens of senior staff members reassigned and key leadership positions left unfilled, rules considered burdensome to industry shelved, and a sweeping reorganization proposed for its 70,000 employees. The evolvingÃâà...
Enterprise News
December 31, 1999
TAUNTON - The U.S Department of the Interior has notified the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe that it is still reviewing evidence to determine whether the tribe qualifies to have land taken into trust under a different legal category from one rejected by a federal judge in 2016, and will provide an update on thatÃâà...
FedScoop
December 31, 1999
The Interior Department has one of the largest non-defense unmanned aircraft programs, and it is only growing. According to a recent report, DOI's 312 drones flew nearly 5,000 missions in 2017, an 82 percent increase from 2016. What are all these drones doing? According to the DOI Office of AviationÃâà...
PBS NewsHour
December 31, 1999
BILLINGS, Mont. — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke revamped a plan for a sweeping overhaul of his department Friday with a new organizational map that more closely follows state lines instead of the natural boundaries he initially proposed. The changes follow complaints from a bipartisan group ofÃâà...
