Deb Haaland
The Biden-Harris Administration is announcing a historic conservation proposal that will protect the most important water system in the western United States. The Department of the Interior is slated to enact efforts to protect the stability and sustainability of the Colorado River System now and into the future. As part of the Department’s continued efforts to address…
Biden proposal would let conservationists lease public land much as drillers and ranchers do By MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration wants to put conserving vast government-owned lands on equal footing with oil drilling, livestock grazing and other interests, according to a top administration official who defended the idea against…
The proposed initiative hopes to find “balance” by reexamining the use of B.L.M. lands in the present to preserve and protect them for an increasingly uncertain future. The Department of the Interior published a proposal to guide the balanced management of America’s public lands for the benefit of current and future generations. The proposed Public…
A Wyoming community is one of seven places listed by the U.S. Department of Interior in the ongoing effort to remove derogatory names from national landmarks. The Department of the Interior today announced the Board on Geographic Names (B.G.N.) has voted on the remaining replacement names featuring the word sq___. In September, the Department announced…
DENVER (AP) — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced an expansion Wednesday of a National Park Service historical site dedicated to the massacre by U.S. troops of more than 200 Native Americans in what is now southeastern Colorado. Haaland, the first Native American to lead a U.S. Cabinet agency, made the announcement during a solemn ceremony…
Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released a Drought Resilience Interagency Working Group’s (IWG) Summary Report describing steps taken to date to improve “drought-stricken” communities’ long-term resilience to drought through a variety of financial and technical assistance. As part of the Administration’s “whole-of-government” approach, the Drought Resilience IWG is confronting climate change. “Intense drought and climate change…
The Interior Department has a list of over 650 geographic features – including two in the Bighorn Basin – that it wants to rename to get one derogatory word off the map forever. On Tuesday, Feb. 22, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a “candidate replacement names” list for 661 geographic features and landmarks…
Governor Mark Gordon is at odds with the U.S. Department of the Interior as they begin a review that could change the conservation status of the gray wolf. In a Jan. 31 letter, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Director Matthew Hogan published an open letter. In the letter, Hogan acknowledges two petitions submitted to…
The state of Wyoming filed a lawsuit challenging the moratorium on oil and gas leasing on federal land issued by President Biden and Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. The suit asserts that Haaland’s implementation of the leasing moratorium in Executive Order 14008 is invalid under federal law. “Following a careful review of not only…
By MEAD GRUVER and MATTHEW BROWN Associated Press CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — President Joe Biden’s bid to tackle climate change is running straight through the heart of the U.S. oil and gas industry — a much bigger, more influential foe than Democrats faced when they took on the coal industry during the Obama years. Coal…
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