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High Country News
April 27, 2018
He has worked for the federal government for two decades, including as director for the Office of Wildland Fire with the Interior Department under the Obama ... In addition, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, like the Department of the Interior in general, has pervasive issues with harassment, as shown through aÃâà...
The Nation.
April 26, 2018
Similar letters went out to the Department of the Interior, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Labor, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Labor Relations Board, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the White House itself.
The Hill
April 26, 2018
The director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Indian Affairs has resigned after only six months on the job, HuffPost reported Thursday. The resignation from bureau head Bryan Rice came just over two weeks after the Interior Department's inspector general released a report saying that the agency hadÃâà...
Pacific Standard
April 20, 2018
Officially, there is no such office, though "energy dominance" has become a slogan for the Department of the Interior's fossil fuel-first policy agenda. "The war on American energy is over," DeVito told the activists, according to a recording of the speech obtained by Pacific Standard. "And, matter-of-fact,Ãâà...
HuffPost
April 12, 2018
In the second she wrote: “We have repeatedly asked the press office for answers to the below questions and for 4 days now we have been told you are working on it and today we've received no response at all. We are asking questions that the public has every right to know as these are their tax dollars andÃâà...
High Country News
April 11, 2018
The Department of the Interior commissioned a survey last year to document the prevalence of harassment within its agencies, prompted by the intense scrutiny it received after the Office of Inspector General found employees, especially women, were marginalized and regularly harassed with little or noÃâà...
The Hill
March 14, 2018
Testifying in front of the Senate Natural Resources Committee on the Interior Department's budget plan, Zinke argued that saying these were private jets were "insults and ... A number of Zinke's uses of chartered planes and jets are under investigation by the Interior Department's Office of Inspector General.
Yellowhammer News
March 14, 2018
“We have a lot of manufacturing in Mexico. We have pretty good automotive supply chains in the Far East. All of a sudden these companies have been growing and the interest of U.S. producers to export more, they'd like to ship out of somewhere close.” The news release from Shelby's office said the facility is expected to beÃâà...
Unmanned Aerial
March 14, 2018
The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) will soon have the use of up to 50 vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) fixed-wing unmanned aircraft systems (UAS). ... With a fleet of 312 UAS, the DOI's Office of Aviation Services flew nearly 5,000 missions in 2017 to support everything from fighting wildfires toÃâà...
Scientific American
March 7, 2018
President Trump's nominee to lead the premier science office at the Interior Department sidestepped a question yesterday about whether climate change is a core mission of the U.S. Geological Survey. Speaking with reporters after a Senate hearing, James Reilly II said he "couldn't address" whether theÃâà...
Vox
March 6, 2018
The former Navy SEAL minted his own challenge coin, rode a horse to his first day of work, and displayed his knife collection in his office before security asked him to remove it. But these .... The Interior department doesn't see its attempt to revoke the monuments' status as a “sale” of public land. Zinke'sÃâà...
Los Alamos Daily Post
March 4, 2018
The first-ever joint review by the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Farmington Field Office and the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) Navajo Regional Office is examining the resource management of public and Tribal lands in Northwestern New Mexico, including the impact of development near the ChacoÃâà...
News-Herald.com
February 28, 2018
Eleven former Interior Department officials with decades of experience in both Washington and in local offices told The Associated Press the agency ... Zinke has made the overhaul of the Interior Department — which manages 780,000 square miles (2 million square kilometers) of public lands, mostly in theÃâà...
FedScoop
February 23, 2018
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...
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...
Chicago Tribune
February 21, 2018
Two senior U.S. Geological Survey officials have stepped down after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke demanded that they provide his office with confidential data on the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska before it was released to the general public. Murray Hitzman and Larry Meinert — who had served asÃâà...
High Country News
February 21, 2018
While these are frustrating examples of federal bureaucracy, organizing bureau offices based on watersheds has raised questions from Western states. In a letter from the Western Governors' Association, the group asked the Department of the Interior to delay the proposal and seek more meaningful inputÃâà...
Pacific Standard
February 20, 2018
Since the Trump administration took office in 2017, however, the Department of the Interior (DOI) has done everything in its power to shred the conservation plans that the previous administration put in place. It has opened up grouse habitat to renewed oil and gas drilling. It has canceled an initiative toÃâà...
The CT Mirror
December 31, 1999
“Our team is working diligently on their letter of request,” DiPaolo said of the office that acts as the independent watchdog of the Interior Department. Each tribe already operates a casino in the state. But the tribes have formed a joint venture to operate a third casino off tribal land in East Windsor. The tribes'Ãâà...
STLtoday.com
December 31, 1999
FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2017, file photo, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke speaks about the Trump Administration's energy policy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. Records show the Interior Department spent nearly $139,000 last year for construction at the agency that was labeled on a work order asÃâà...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
December 31, 1999
"It wasn't some secret ANWR planning meeting with employees," said Steve Wackowski, senior Interior Department adviser for Alaska Affairs. "The topic was 'Meet your department secretary and ask him questions.' We had National Park Service, Office of Aviation Services; folks who had nothing to do withÃâà...
Montana Standard
December 31, 1999
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department is spending nearly $139,000 to upgrade three sets of double doors in the office of Secretary Ryan Zinke. Spokeswoman Heather Swift says Zinke was not aware of the contract for the work prior to a request for information from The Associated Press. Swift said theÃâà...
Pacific Standard
December 31, 1999
During her first year in office, Benedetto also consistently met with mining interests opposed to the Obama administration's conservation plans for the sage grouse, which limit drilling and mining on the imperiled bird's vast Western habit. Zinke tapped Benedetto last summer to co-chair a team tasked withÃâà...
KTOO
December 31, 1999
Alaskan Tara Sweeney is President Donald Trump's pick to be the next assistant Interior secretary of Indian Affairs. Her nomination has been held up for months at the Office of Government Ethics, an independent agency in the executive branch. Alaska's U.S. senators say the problem holding up Sweeney'sÃâà...
