The Latest Breaking News from the Department ofInterior

Air pollution monitoring to protect people and wildlife in national parks suspended after former oil exec given oversight of National Park Service

The change comes amid fears that other conservation programmes will be next in the firing line

Advnture · May 8, 2025

Elon Musk's DOGE Controls Your Public Lands Now

DOGE—the Department of Government Efficiency—controls your public lands now. I wish I was kidding, but on April 17th, supposed Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum handed Elon Musk the entirety of America's accumulated public lands. That includes national parks, Bureau of Land Management, and Forestry lands, as well as the…

RideApart · Apr 24, 2025

SEMA Still Supports the Guy Trying to Sell Off Your Public Land

A few days ago, REI came out and apologized for supporting the nomination and subsequent appointment of Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum. Their reversal comes after Burgum's actions and statements about selling off public lands, using them for mineral and logging extraction, and his joint statement with the Housing and…

RideApart · Apr 12, 2025

Donald Trump To Nominate Doug Burgum As Interior Secretary

President-elect Trump appoints Gov. Doug Burgum as Secretary of the Interior, emphasizing energy and land management.

Top News · Nov 15, 2024

My family lived the horrors of Native American boarding schools – why Biden’s apology doesn’t go far enough

I am a direct descendant of family members that were forced as children to attend either a U.S. government-operated or church-run Indian boarding school. They include my mother, all four of my grandparents and the majority of my great-grandparents.

The Conversation · Oct 28, 2024

Latino advocates in California call on president Biden to protect Chuckwalla lands

They met with President Joe Biden's administration and members of Congress in Washington.

Latin Times · Jun 29, 2024

Biden Administration Allocates 0 Million To Tribal Climate Resilience

Biden administration allocates 0 million to tribal governments to combat climate change impacts, emphasizing adaptation and resilience for Indigenous co...

Top News · Mar 14, 2024

US government agrees to help restore sacred Native American site destroyed for Oregon road project

The U.S. government has agreed to help restore a sacred Native American site in Oregon that was destroyed by highway construction in 2008

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2023

United Nations watchdogs raise concerns about Nooksack evictions, again

SEATTLE — More than 5,000 miles separate Deming in Whatcom County, Washington, where the Nooksack River rushes out of the North Cascades, and the Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the United Nations Human Rights Council is headquartered.

Tribune News Service · May 25, 2023