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This photo provided by the National Park Service shows a sign marking the north entrance of Yellowstone National Park, May 7, 2018. (Jacob W. Frank/National Park Service via AP, File)

Here’s what a Texas oil executive from DOGE is doing inside the Interior Department

By Martha Bellisle - Associated Press

Former Gov. Doug Burgum, President-elect Donald Trump's choice to lead the the Interior Department as Secretary of the Interior, arrives to testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Big Oil wants a lot from Trump. It has an ally in Doug Burgum, the president’s Interior pick

By Brian Slodysko and Jack Dura - Associated Press

The sunny days of working from anywhere are coming to an end for federal employees. With Republicans in power in Washington, waste watchers will be forcing them back to headquarters. (Associated Press)

Cashing in from afar: Federal employees in for big workplace change

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Turbines operate at the Block Island Wind Farm, Dec. 7, 2023, off the coast of Block Island, R.I., during a tour organized by Orsted. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson, File)

Maryland, Delaware businesses sue feds over offshore wind project

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

FILE - Pump jacks work in a field near Lovington, N.M., April 24, 2015. Oil and gas companies will have to pay more to drill on public lands and satisfy stronger requirements to clean up old or abandoned wells under a final rule issued Friday, April 12, 2024, by the Biden administration. The Interior Department rule does not go so far as to prohibit new oil and gas leasing on public lands, as many environmental groups have urged and as President Joe Biden promised during the 2020 campaign. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Oil and gas companies must pay more to drill on public lands under new Biden administration rule

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Inside the secret struggle to find ‘official rationale’ for Biden’s oil, gas leasing halt

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Illustration on Bureau of Ocean Energy Management and domestic energy by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Interior Department’s latest attack on domestic energy

By Curtis Schube

Tommy Beaudreau, Deputy Secretary of the Interior, speaks during a news conference on Lake Mead at Hoover Dam, Tuesday, April 11, 2023, near Boulder City, Nev. The Biden administration on Tuesday released an environmental analysis of competing plans for how Western states and tribes reliant on the dwindling Colorado River should cut their use. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Interior’s No. 2 official leaving contentious role overseeing Biden energy policies

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

New rules for oil and gas leasing raise rates energy companies pay to drill on public lands

By Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland listens to criticism from Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., as she testifies on President Joe Biden's budget request for 2024, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland dogged by ethics questions over daughter’s anti-drilling activism

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

'You Report To Me' by David Berhardt (book cover)

BOOK REVIEW: ‘You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State’

By William Perry Pendley

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., talks to The Associated Press about her visit to Ukraine a year ago and her time as the Democratic leader in the House, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, April 19, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Pelosi’s pork: Park Service siphoned $200 million to former speaker’s pet project

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Supporters say a major oil project President Joe Biden is OK'ing on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities while environmentalists say it runs counter to his climate goals.

Alaska’s Willow oil project is controversial. Here’s why.

By Becky Bohrer, Matthew Brown and Matthew Daly - Associated Press

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the budget request for fiscal year 2023 for the Department of the Interior, May 19, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Haaland broke her leg during a hike in Shenandoah National Park Sunday, but is recovering, the Interior Department says. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Biden Cabinet member’s report of nearly zero assets spurs call for ethics audit

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

An oil drilling rig is pictured at sunset, March 7, 2022, in El Reno, Okla. The Biden administration has considerably slowed its approval of new oil and natural gas drilling leases on public lands, despite facing pressure to more aggressively urge fossil fuel companies to increase their production in the face of high domestic energy prices. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)

Biden administration hedges on resuming oil-and-gas leasing despite court ruling

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times