Former National Park superintendents urge Interior to close parks during shutdown, warning Burgum’s keep-open order endangers visitors without adequate staffing.
Portland State study finds Trump’s spending bill threatens $530 million in federal funding for Northwest tribes’ water, housing and climate programs.
The Interior Dept. secretly plans new layoffs that could push its total staff cuts under Trump to over one-third, after already shedding 11% of its workforce.
Trump denounced the United Nations and multilateralism in a speech calling climate change a con job before privately pledging his 100% support to its leader.
The EPA eliminates its independent research office in a reorganization that places scientists under the administrator’s direct political control.
A federal judge ends the 31-day halt on the Revolution Wind farm, ruling the Trump administration’s stop-work order was arbitrary and capricious.
EPA political appointees halted Office of Water research for a new political review two months after dismantling the agency’s main research branch.
The Trump administration asks a court to revoke a major offshore wind permit eight months after its approval, citing a new legal theory.
The National Academy of Sciences refutes the scientific basis for the Trump administration’s proposal to revoke the 2009 climate endangerment finding.
The Trump EPA plans to eliminate the program that has tracked industrial greenhouse gases since 2009, citing $2.4 billion in business savings.
