A former mining executive is playing a key role in the president’s campaign to build monuments and stage spectacles in the Capitol. His financial disclosure contains inconsistencies.

The document also appears to leave the door open to selling federal lands that are not national parks or wilderness areas.

The Interior Department will soon publish a “categorical exclusion” that will rubber stamp oil and gas development in Alaska’s remote National Petroleum Reserve.

The commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Commissioner will visit the beloved Texas park to conduct an evaluation and meet with stakeholders.

"You can virtually not even walk on it," Trump falsely claimed before slashing nearly 3 million acres from Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.

Karen Budd-Falen, a rancher and long-time Republican operative, has been plagued by ethics scandals since taking a top role at the Interior Department.

In administrative cases before DOI, Interior Secretary Burgum intervened to make policy changes that involved or benefited the former legal clients of Karen Budd-Falen, one of his top deputies.

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Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said a federal land sell-off “wasn’t part of the president’s agenda" even though his staff shared research with the Utah senator.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said a federal land sell-off “wasn’t part of the president’s agenda" even though his staff shared research with the Utah senator.

Ahead of what is predicted to be a dangerous wildfire season, the Trump Administration gutted the Forest Service by closing its regional headquarters along with most research facilities and experimental forests.

During her stint in the first Trump administration, Karen Budd-Falen was prohibited from working on or even discussing grazing matters.

“I will recuse myself from any discussion of grazing matters," Karen Budd-Falen wrote in a 2018 ethics filing.

The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

The Interior Department’s muddled release of Karen Budd-Falen’s ethics documents have sparked renewed calls for an investigation.

The agency’s own cost-benefit assessment for revoking the endangerment finding points to steep costs that may outweigh the savings.

"It is now time for all of you to get in the arena with him," four descendants of the late president wrote in a letter to GOP senators.

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Ryan Lampers built a following on social media and podcasts before criminal charges led to his downfall.

House Republicans say they want to offload "underutilized" federal buildings. Their math isn’t mathing.

Partisanship trumped common ground on conservation in the long-simmering fight over a proposed mine in northern Minnesota.

Last year, Steve Pearce raked in up to $1.1 million off of frac tank leases and water sales — to whom remains unclear.

Plus, our investigation cited in NYT and featured on Rachel Maddow.

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.

Karen Budd-Falen’s family ranching operation agreed to sell water rights to the company developing the Thacker Pass lithium mine.

Citing a Public Domain exposé, House Democrats ask Interior’s watchdog to investigate potential ethics violations by acting BOEM director Matt Giacona

Wildfires are getting worse — and a lot more expensive for the rest of us.

Documents obtained by Public Domain raise ethics questions about former oil executive Tyler Hassen's investments.

The controversial migrant detention facility in Florida is being sued for violating federal environmental protections and harming endangered species

The administration said it will go hunting for cases of wind energy companies unintentionally killing migratory birds — something it has long argued is not a violation of federal law.

Republican-backed wolf-culling campaigns may wind up triggering federal protections again.

Will the administration’s ongoing push to open federal lands for housing development face the same public backlash that Sen. Mike Lee triggered?

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Aubrie Spady was recently hired as Interior’s deputy press secretary. Her father is a longtime conservative operative with close ties to the MAGA world.