Department Of The Interior

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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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.

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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

Public records show that industry groups and conservative politicians have had the ear of top Department of the Interior officials as they seek to dismantle conservation protections for the imperiled species.

• By Jimmy Tobias

On the latest episode of Pacific Standard's podcast about how our stories are made, contributing writer Jimmy Tobias discusses his reporting on extinction, extraction, and environmental justice.

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The department is planning to re-adjust its regional boundaries and revamp its organization system in 2018, starting with a pilot management office in Alaska.

• By Candace Butera

Daniel Jorjani, the Department of the Interior's principal deputy solicitor, once advised Charles Koch. Now, he takes meetings with industry representatives and rolls back conservation protections.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Given the connections to the oil and gas industry within the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of the Interior, rollbacks to environmental protections should come as no surprise.

• By Jared Keller

The decision would remove protections for up 100 million acres of water, some of which have been closed to drilling for three decades.

• By Morgan Baskin

The study would have provided the government with recommendations for improvements to its offshore inspection program.

• By Kate Wheeling

The secretary of the interior wants to raise user fees at the national parks. His proposal will hurt all but the wealthiest Americans, and it won't work.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Exaggeration and misdirection can only damage the conservation movement's credibility.

• By Jimmy Tobias