Department Of The Interior

David Bernhardt, who will step in to fill the role, is a lawyer and lobbyist with strong fossil fuel and water industry ties.

• By Rebecca Worby

Whether Ryan Zinke is in or out of office, a cohort of right-wing industry advocates still wield huge influence over the DOI.

• By Jimmy Tobias

A Park Service Board gets new members, mudflows follow California fires, and a big company commits to clean energy.

• By Rebecca Worby

Advocacy groups say that's an unprecedented show of public interest.

• By Rebecca Worby

A new report assesses the greenhouse gas emissions attributable to coal, oil, and gas on public lands.

• By Francie Diep

Here's what you need to know about the young people suing the U.S. government over climate change.

• By Sophie Yeo

An investigation by Pacific Standard and the Guardian revealed the full extent to which Ryan Zinke's Department of the Interior favored industry over conservation.

• By Rebecca Worby

"They are undermining the department's mission at every turn": New documents reveal just how much the Department of the Interior favored industry over conservation.

• By Jimmy Tobias

With the mid-term elections looming, some have speculated that Zinke will be among the next spate of cabinet members to leave their posts.

• By Rebecca Worby

Several non-profit groups have lambasted the new rule as a handout to the extractive industry.

• By Rebecca Worby

News and notes from Pacific Standard staff and contributors.

• By Francie Diep
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Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke didn't see the Bureau of Land Management's draft plan beforehand; he only learned the details when he read about them in the news.

• By Rebecca Worby

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a profile of Billie Sutton, the former rodeo star running for governor of South Dakota, to a report on the growing trend of girls-only trade classes.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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• By Pacific Standard Staff
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Documents accidentally shared by the Department of the Interior reveal the prioritization of energy, ranching, and logging in the monuments review.

• By Rebecca Worby

Ethiopia and Eritrea enter a new era, Ireland makes a big climate change move, and a sock scandal strikes the Department of the Interior chief.

• By Rebecca Worby

A collection of some of our most important and timely stories, from a new cover story on efforts to reintroduce the grizzly to California to a FOIA-based investigation into the Department of the Interior's current priorities.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
• Member Exclusive

Records obtained by Pacific Standard reveal that a top official at the DOI had a hand in nixing a government-funded public-health study in Appalachia—after a series of meetings with some of the most powerful mining players in the country.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Anatomy of a Fact is a recurring series exposing how the Pacific Standard research and fact-checking process works.

• By Ben Rowen

A high-level official at the Department of the Interior held meetings with a previous employer, the Koch-linked Texas Public Policy Foundation, while it was involved in legal action against the department, according to newly obtained documents.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Records reveal that, following requests by fossil fuel industry groups, a top official at the Department of the Interior appeared to take credit for helping to delay new federal protections for a once-endangered species.

• By Jimmy Tobias

The lawsuit alleges that the DOI's decision to allow Americans to bring their hunting trophies back home violates the Endangered Species Act.

• By Francie Diep

Public records show that a senior DOI adviser has met with mining and fossil-fuel representatives far more than she has with environmentalists.

• By Jimmy Tobias

DOI officials found the descriptive language to be inflammatory.

• By Candace Butera