Ryan Zinke

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

• By Rebecca Worby

The Democratic congressman will soon be able to reverse much of the anti-conservation legacy that his predecessor leaves behind.

• By Jimmy Tobias

New farm bill provisions would eliminate environmental protections for forest management, without addressing the wildfires' biggest driver: climate change.

• By Emily Moon

On the latest episode of Pacific Standard's podcast about how our stories are made, we talk with contributor Jimmy Tobias about his investigation into Ryan Zinke's DOI.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

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

The former director of the Department of the Interior's policy office opens up about where the agency went wrong—and how to save it.

• By Joel Clement

"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

Oregon Governor Kate Brown announced a plan to block offshore drilling off the state's coast on Monday.

• By Kate Wheeling

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke directed federal agencies to smooth the way for installing seismic sensors out west.

• By Emma Sarappo

The Trump administration has posited that more active management of forests could help prevent future fires, but the science doesn't back that up.

• By Derek E. Lee

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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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

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

Californians remove a controversial judge from the bench, Trump might be down with legalizing marijuana, and fourth-graders can keep going to national parks for free.

• By Rebecca Worby

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

• By Ben Rowen

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

Zinke's Japanese-language gaffe shows his true colors when it comes to who can truly be considered American.

• By Massoud Hayoun

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

Trump officials are facing increasing scrutiny for extravagant uses of taxpayer dollars.

• By Kate Wheeling

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

A chat with Democratic Representative Betty McCollum of Minnesota.

• By David M. Perry