Environment Tax the Rich and Build the Trails User fees and other pay-to-play policies are a regressive scheme that won't fix our public lands. We should resist them. Jimmy Tobias
Environment Did a Top-Level Department of the Interior Nominee Commit Scientific Fraud? David Bernhardt, President Trump's pick for the No. 2 position at the Department of the Interior, has some explaining to do. Jimmy Tobias
Environment Awash in Dark Money, a Western Think Tank Is Leading the Charge Against the Antiquities Act With more than $1.6 million from groups backed by shadowy billionaires, the Sutherland Institute, based in Utah, has set its sights on the Bears Ears National Monument. Jimmy Tobias
Environment It’s Been Five Years Since the Gulf Oil Disaster and the Government Has Done Almost Nothing to Prevent Another Congress gets an F for stalling the implementation of new safety regulations. Brian Palmer
Environment The Government Is OK With a 75 Percent Chance of a Major Arctic Oil Spill. Are You? The Department of the Interior says there’s a 75 percent chance of a major oil spill in the Arctic—and it’s willing to take that chance. Brian Palmer