Topic: Public Lands & Resources

The Trump administration's latest pick to manage nearly a quarter-billion acres of public land doesn't think the government should own land. But can he do anything about it?

The shortage is part of an ongoing dilemma as the government struggles to budget and plan for longer, more severe fire seasons.

The agency claims modern mining practices have reduced the risk of pollution going unaddressed. Will taxpayers still have to pay a price?

The environmental non-profit estimates that recent federal oil and gas leases will produce more greenhouse gas emissions than the European Union emits in a year.

Critics of the move say it's a way to weaken the agency and eliminate senior officials and scientists who don't want to relocate.

Douglas Domenech's communications with his former employer, the Koch-backed Texas Public Policy Foundation, are more extensive than previously known.

As talk of relocating federal agencies to the areas they most directly serve has gained steam, a Colorado town is making a push to house the Department of the Interior's BLM.

The Department of Homeland Security is bypassing dozens of laws to speed up the construction of several miles of fencing in Texas.

Oregon has banned Wildlife Services' use of cyanide bombs, and some California counties have severed their contracts with the agency.

A dispatch from the ongoing war on America’s public lands.

The National Parks Conservation Association's new report recommends mitigating pollution and transitioning to clean energy, with an emphasis on fair solutions.

Westminster, Colorado's focus on taming water demand has become a regional model for managing growth without straining resources.

The Imperial Irrigation District in California has sued to halt the plan, arguing that it wrongly ignores the Salton Sea.

Warren's plan includes ending fossil fuel drilling on public lands, eliminating entrance fees for national parks, and mandating spending for the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

In two new executive orders, Trump seeks to expand executive power over pipelines and make it harder for states to block oil and gas projects.

The administration's latest target: research centers known as Landscape Conservation Cooperatives.

The #trashtag challenge inspired people to clean up beaches, parks, rivers, or just random trash strewn on the street.

Rather than list the bird as an endangered species, the Obama administration struck a compromise deal with energy companies—and now Trump is undoing it.

Last year, a government watchdog report found that about 13 million American children went to schools where officials discovered lead in their drinking water. Now, advocacy groups have graded states' school water policies.

Fights over the Colorado River's most significant tributary are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse.

As this water emergency quickly becomes a public-health crisis, here's what officials are reporting.

The Brazilian minister of mines and energy stated that Brazil would open its indigenous territories to mining interests without the consent of the affected population.

California's water conservation has seen ups and downs in recent years. Here's what the data shows.

The Trump administration pushed to excise coal deposits from a Utah monument, New York lawmakers want to help minors get vaccinated, and a Navy ship is quarantined at sea.