Tag: Bureau of Land Management

Cabinet officials spread out to push clean coal, coal power plants and coal mining. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Energy and Environment

Federal judge’s order could set precedent for mining less coal due to climate change

John Siciliano · March 27, 2018 1:55 am

Energy and Environment

Wild horses spared from slaughter in spending bill, but new fight on horizon

John Siciliano · March 22, 2018 9:51 pm

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Monday tweeted out changes to a planned oil and gas lease sale in Montana after the proposed transaction faced pushback from tribal and environmentalist groups. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ryan Zinke postpones oil and gas lease sale near Yellowstone after local opposition

Josh Siegel · March 5, 2018 10:23 pm

Eighty-two percent of surveyed Democrats say they favor a ban on semi-automatics, which would include not just rifles like the one used in the Feb. 14 Parkland massacre, which claimed the lives of 17 people, but also most handguns. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Beltway Confidential

Survey: Majority of Democrats want to ban semi-automatics, half want to ban all guns

Becket Adams · March 2, 2018 5:50 pm

In this photo from Monday, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh, right, accompanied by District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine, left, speaks at a news conference near the White House. They, along with several other attorneys general, are expressing confidence in their legal battles against the Trump administration's environmental policy. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Energy and Environment

Liberal state attorneys general promise unrelenting fight against Trump for ‘illegal’ environmental moves

Josh Siegel · February 27, 2018 10:45 pm

The Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management announced in December a two-year delay in implementing the Obama administration's rule. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)

Energy and Environment

Federal court says Trump must enforce Obama-era methane rule

Josh Siegel · February 23, 2018 2:32 pm

Researchers found remains of crocodile-like animals called phytosaurs in an area that President Trump cut off from the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. "Based on our small, initial excavation, we believe that this 63-meter site may be the densest area of Triassic period fossils in the nation, maybe the world," one researcher said.

Energy and Environment

Researchers discover fossils in area Trump removed from Bears Ears monument

Josh Siegel · February 22, 2018 9:43 pm

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas blamed by most climate scientists for causing the phenomenon known as climate change. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Trump guts Obama-era methane rules for fracking

John Siciliano · February 13, 2018 12:29 am

A new Interior Department policy would change the Master Lease Plans, developed under the Obama administration, which placed strict limits on the types of activities allowed on public lands. (iStock)

Energy and Environment

Trump guts Obama policy to open up drilling on public lands

John Siciliano · February 1, 2018 11:17 pm

A man named Michael Whited moved from Alabama to the mountains of Colorado. The Bureau of Land Management, however, has made his life difficult as the BLM refused to take any action to address even the most significant safety hazards caused by its failure to maintain its land properly. (iStock)

Beltway Confidential

The worst neighbor you can imagine: the federal government

William Perry Pendley · January 31, 2018 11:53 pm

Most recently, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to remove the Canadian lynx from the list of threatened species. And a number of other species are set to go from endangered to threatened, according to the administration's regulatory agenda. (AP Photo/Jack Smith, File)

Energy and Environment

Endangered species law in Trump’s crosshairs

John Siciliano · January 30, 2018 5:01 am

Democrats probe for weak spots among Trump administration contractors

Energy and Environment

Democrats probe for weak spots among Trump administration contractors

John Siciliano · January 16, 2018 10:55 pm