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Trump administration wants to vet worries about drilling near national parks from regional offices

September 19, 2019 at 9:04 a.m.

WASHINGTON - The Trump administration has told park superintendents around the country they must notify Washington supervisors before issuing comments to other parts of the federal government when they are...

Drilling on federal lands increasing climate change, Trump administration report says

November 27, 2018 at 8:34 p.m.

The Trump administration issued a scientific report that found oil drilling and coal mining on federally owned lands has a significant impact on the changing climate globally.

Yellowstone National Park Superintendent Dan Wenk, shown outside his office in Mammoth, Wyo., in 2013, could be reassigned to Washington, D.C., under a controversial Interior Department plan.

Proposed shake-up at National Park Service could make senior leaders hit the road

April 27, 2018 at 9:14 p.m.

A major management shake-up could be underway at the National Park Service, including the proposed reassignment of the veteran superintendent of Yellowstone National Park and six other senior executives, according...

U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt makes ...

Scott Pruitt’s climate message is now official EPA guidance

March 29, 2018 at 9:56 p.m.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt has long insisted it is difficult for scientists to precisely measure the extent to which humans cause climate change.

The next wildfire season starts soon. The government wants to use drones to fight it.

March 13, 2018 at 10:00 a.m.

Last summer, one of the many fires with which federal and local officials had to contend raged in the Umpqua National Forest in southwest Oregon, close to the California border.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt gestures as he speaks to the media at the White House on June 2, 2017.

Scott Pruitt asks whether global warming is “necessarily is a bad thing”

February 7, 2018 at 4:19 p.m.

As head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt has repeatedly questioned the scientific consensus that rising levels of carbon dioxide from human-fueled activity are warming the planet.

Coal miner Scott Tiller crawls through ...

Trump administration cancels detailed review of Obama-era mining ban near Minnesota wilderness

January 26, 2018 at 9:47 p.m.

The Trump administration on Friday curtailed a detailed review of how cordoning off more than 234,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service land in Minnesota from mining development would affect a...

In this Dec. 5, 2012 photo, the sun sets behind an oil pump jack and the Rocky Mountains near Fredrick, Colo.

California sues Trump administration over repeal of fracking rule

January 24, 2018 at 11:08 p.m.

On Wednesday, the state filed another lawsuit against the Trump administration, this one concerning the repeal of a rule regulating hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, on publicly owned lands under Interior...

In this Dec. 14, 2017 photo a snowy owl stares prior being released along the shore of Duxbury Beach in Duxbury, Mass.

17 former wildlife officials urge Interior to rethink easing rules against killing birds

January 12, 2018 at 8:06 p.m.

A group of former Interior Department officials from both major parties who served under the past eight presidents pressed the Trump administration Wednesday to reconsider its move to ease restrictions...

President Donald Trump holds up the first page of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act after signing it into law on Dec. 22 in the Oval Office.

After chilly forecast, Trump tweets U.S. “could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming”

December 28, 2017 at 10:58 p.m.

In the years before moving to the White House, Donald Trump used Twitter to call climate change "nonsense" peddled by "con artists" and "created by and for the Chinese."

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